ISBN:
1526135639
,
9781526135636
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
,
illustrations (black and white)
Series Statement:
Cultural history of modern war
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.094109034
Keywords:
Sociology, Military History 19th century
;
Masculinity History 19th century
;
Masculinity
;
HISTORY ; Military ; General
;
Social conditions
;
Sociology, Military
;
History
;
Military history
;
Great Britain History, Military 19th century
;
Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction / Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato -- part I. Experiencing martial masculinities. Burying Lord Uxbridge's leg : the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century / Julia Banister -- Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793-1815 / Louise Carter -- Recalling the comforts of home : bachelor soldiers' narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior / Helen Metcalfe -- Charles Incledon : a singing sailor on the Georgian stage / Anna Maria Barry -- Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain : memory, masculinity and nation / Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato -- part II. Imagining martial masculinities. Hunger and cannibalism : James Hogg's deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! / Barbara Leonardi -- Model military men : Charlotte Yonge and the 'martial ardour' of 'a soldier's daughter' / Susan Walton -- 'And the individual withers' : Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity / Lorenzo Servitje -- Charlotte Brontë's 'warrior priest' : St John Rivers and the language of war / Karen Turner -- 'Something which every boy can learn' : accessible knightly masculinities in children's Arthuriana, 1903-11 / Elly McCausland -- 'A story of treasure, war and wild adventure' : heroworship, imperial masculinities and inter-generational ideologies in H. Rider Haggard's 1880s fiction / Helen Goodman -- Epilogue : Gendered virtue, gendered vigour and gendered valour / Isaac Land.
Abstract:
This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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