Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

This volume argues for the enduring significance of war in the formation of British Enlightenment and Romantic culture. It is premised on the assumption that the study of war in this period cannot be contained by conventional disciplinary rubrics, parameters and periodizations. Offering, therefore, an interdisciplinary approach, it combines consideration of the many forms of war's textuality with an attention to its affects, materialities and socialities. The collection problematises assumptions about the ontology of war by focussing on its multiple, divergent and productive traces.