Brown / Unknown / Barry Martial masculinities

Experiencing and imagining the military in the long nineteenth century
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3563-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Cultural History of Modern War

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Brown, Michael

Barry, Anna Maria

Begiato, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato
Part I: Experiencing martial masculinities
1 Burying Lord Uxbridge’s leg: the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century – Julia Banister
2 Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793–1815 – Louise Carter
3 Recalling the comforts of home: bachelor soldiers’ narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior – Helen Metcalfe
4 Charles Incledon: a singing sailor on the Georgian stage – Anna Maria Barry
5 Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain: memory, masculinity and nation – Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato
Part II: Imagining martial masculinities
6 Hunger and cannibalism: James Hogg’s deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! – Barbara Leonardi
7 Model military men: Charlotte Yonge and the ‘martial ardour’ of ‘a soldier’s daughter’ – Susan Walton
8 ‘And the individual withers’: Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity – Lorenzo Servitje
9 Charlotte Brönte’s ‘warrior priest’: St John Rivers and the language of war – Karen Turner
10 ‘Something which every boy can learn’: accessible knightly masculinities in children’s Arthuriana, 1903–11 – Elly McCausland
11 ‘A story of treasure, war, and wild adventure’: hero-worship, 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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brown Michael:
Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in History at Roehampton UniversityMichael Brown is Reader in History at the University of Roehampton
Anna Maria Barry is a Research Assistant at the Royal College of Music Museum
Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University