Martial masculinities : experiencing and imagining the military in the long nineteenth century /

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This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Brown, Michael, 1977- (Editor), Barry, Anna Maria (Editor), Begiato, Joanne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]
Series:Cultural history of modern war.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Masculinity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sociology, Military > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Masculinité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociologie militaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > General.
Masculinity
Social conditions
Sociology, Military
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > History, Military > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire militaire > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
History
Military history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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