Stefanie Markovits

The Crimean War in the British Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first study of the influence of the Crimean War (1854 56) on British literary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521112376
• ISBN-10: 0521112370
• Artikelnr.: 26527081

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: the blossom of war
A brief history of the war: Part I. Rushing into Print: Journalism and the Crimean War: 1. 'The Times war'
2. 'Mr. Russell's 'war''
3. 'The people's war'
Part II. From Amyas Leigh to Aurora Leigh: Gender and Heroism in the Novels of the Crimean War: 1. Eastward ho?: the Kingsleys, the Crimean War, and the novel
2. From East and West to North and South
3. 'Heroic womanhood'
Part III. 'The Song that Nerves a Nation's Heart': The Poetry of The Crimean War: 1. The poetic (battle-) field
2. Giving voice to the war: Tennyson's Charge and Maud's battle-song
Part IV. Painters of Modern Life: (Re)mediating the Crimean War in the Art of John Leech and John Everett Millais: 1. 'Nothing like knowing the country'
2. Playing at war
3. Peace concluded?
Afterword: Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, the roll call, and the afterlife of the Crimean War.