Seen through the Loopholes
David Simpson: ‘War at a Distance’, 11 March 2010
War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime
by Mary Favret.
Princeton, 262 pp., £18.95, January 2010,978 0 691 14407 8 Show More
by Mary Favret.
Princeton, 262 pp., £18.95, January 2010,
“... sight and out of time; the eruption of faraway Mount Tambora in 1815, for example, produced cold summers and critically low harvests in Europe (giving us also Byron’s ‘Darkness’ and, when the sun came out again, Keats’s ‘To Autumn’). Weather, like war and disease, was no respecter of national borders; distant war might come close to home. War and ... ”