Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His interests include the literary, cultural and biopolitical responses to warfare during the eighteenth century and Romantic eras, with a particular focus on the representations of personal experience and the development of a modern culture of war. He is the author of The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (2011) and co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Tracing War in British Enlightenment and Romantic Culture (2015) and, with Anders Engberg-Pedersen, of War and Literary Studies (c.2022).

• Introduction: Romanticism and the Bio-aesthetics of the Military Literary World; 1. Writing and the Disciplinarisation of Military Knowledge; 2. Strategy in the Age of History: Henry Lloyd's Sublime Philosophy of War; 3. Robert Jackson's Medicalisation of Military Discipline; 4. More a Poet than a Statesman: The Epic Vigour of Charles Pasley's Military Policy; 5. Thomas Hamilton's Wordsworthian Novel of War: Sexuality, Wounding and the Bare Life of the Soldier; Afterword: Trauma, Security and Romantic Counter-Strategies; Bibliography.