The Ocean Bards
British Poetry and the War at Sea, 1793-1815
Long before Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's novels of the great age of combat sail, a vast popular poetry abounded in Britain about the war at sea against the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. This book tells the story of how that poetry, with its sailors and admirals as folk heroes, became a driving force for morale, national identity and patriotism that would flourish until 1918. Focusing on the sea poetry of Britain during that twenty-two year war, 1793-1815, the book shows how heretofore overlooked invasion poems, sea battle ballads, victory odes, seascapes and sailors' elegies are crucial to a full understanding of literary…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Klein, Jürgen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-631-33569-7
- EAN: 9783631335697
- Produktnummer: 19977817
- Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 189 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.5 cm 279 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 15
- Gewicht: 279
Über den Autor
The Author: H. George Hahn is professor of English and director of the graduate program in humanities at Towson University, Maryland. His books include a historical interpretation of the British novel to 1770, and critical bibliographies of Henry Fielding and the eighteenth-century British novel. His articles have appeared in major journals.
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