Holly Furneaux

Military Men of Feeling

Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War

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Produktbeschreibung

Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period, inviting us to think afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 142mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855800
• ISBN-10: 0192855808
• Artikelnr.: 62038744

Autorenporträt

Holly Furneaux is a Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of Dickens in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and editor of John Forster's Life of Dickens (Sterling, 2011). Research for Military Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'The company of gentlemen': Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling
and Eighteenth-Century Traditions
* 2: Princes of War and of Peace: Secular and Spiritual Redemption in
Dickens and Kingsley
* 3: Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield Adoption
* 4: 'Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son': Family
Feeling in the Crimea
* 5: Sharing the Stuff of War: Soldier Art, Textiles and Tactility
* 6: Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving
* Afterword: The Ballad of the Boy Captain
* Bibliography
* Index