Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art

In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier. He examines a wide range of print and visual media including paintings political prose anti-war poetry early photographs and the letters and journals of soldiers and surgeons uncovering a history of changing attitudes that qualify notions of suffering on and off the battlefield as noble or heroic.