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This chapter pairs Benjamin Rush’s notion of “revolutiana,” enthusiasm for battle, with Burke’s theories of the sublime. War can also result in trauma, what Thomas Weiskel terms the negative sublime. The chapter first examines the importance of distance in Thomas DeQuincey’s “On War” and “The English Stage-Coach” to set the stage for Byron’s Siege of Corinth, which capitalizes on the distance of Muslim culture. George Gleig’s Subaltern also features sublime moments, mostly looking from afar at the events of the battlefield; this feeling will be replicated in Robert Ker Porter’s incredibly successful panorama, Conquest at Seringapatam. Spectatorship is also crucial to Joanna Baillie’s Count Basil, featuring a character whose obsession with conquest begins in the military and ends with a woman. |
