Neil Ramsey

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the little-known memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Ramsey shows how these popular works profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351885676
• Artikelnr.: 49366757

Autorenporträt

Neil Ramsey is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: modern war and the suffering soldier; Part 1 The
Genre of the Military Memoir, 1780-1835: The sentimental military memoir,
1780-1825; Military authors and the commemoration of war, 1825-1835. Part 2
The Military Memoir and the Sacrifices of War: Suffering and the spectacle
of modern war: Robert Ker Porter's Letters from Portugal and Spain (1809);
'An atom of an army': the sentimental soldier's tale and Journal of a
Soldier of the 71st (1819); Romantic authorship and picturesque war: Moyle
Sherer's Recollections of the Peninsula (1823) and George Gleig's The
Subaltern (1825); The cheerful stoicism of the soldier hero: John Kincaid's
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (1830); Conclusion: 'a plain unvarnished
tale': the military author and the romance of war; Appendix; Bibliography;
Index