6 De Quincey's ‘Most Romantic of All Romances’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. A NOTE ON THE TEXT viii
6. I Introduction 1
7. 2 Cobden's Critique of War 19
8. 3 Clausewitz and Friction 28
9. 4 Proudhon's War and Peace 42
10. 5 Engels and the Devouring War of the Future 48
11. 6 De Quincey's ‘Most Romantic of All Romances’ 59
12. 7 Ruskin and the Degradation of True War 65
13. 8 The Biology of War 75
14. 9 The Wake of 1870 88
15. 10 Tunnel Visions 115
16. 11 1914: The ‘Deep Sources’ 136
17. 12 The Rationalisation of Slaughter 165
18. 13 ‘The Unnatural and Terrible Wall of the War’ 189
19. 14 ‘The Revolt of the Machines’ 205
20. 15 ‘Why War?’ 211
21. Bibliography 271
22. Index 287