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Chapter 9 - Saving Communal Virtue

from Part III - War and Peace in an Age of Revolutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Andrew Lincoln
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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In the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, writers across a range of political opinions had to reconcile their approval of martial ardour with their dread of popular violence. As a result, attempts to imagine patriotic ardour often coincided with, or coalesced with, attempts to encourage peace. This resulted in a melancholy call-to-arms. Writers linked collective support for war, or protest against it, with tranquilising communal mourning, or else focused on the wars of a lost past that preceded modern commercial and industrial relations, or else pushed the prospect of collective armed struggle for social justice stoically into an indefinite future. These strategies provided forms of moral insulation for like-minded communities. The discussion includes works by Anna Barbauld, Walter Scott, Helen Porter and Lord Byron, among others.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Saving Communal Virtue
  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.014
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  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.014
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  • Saving Communal Virtue
  • Andrew Lincoln, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Imagining War and Peace in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1690–1820
  • Online publication: 10 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366519.014
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