Crimean War in the British Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Stefanie Markovits is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. Klappentext The first study of the influence of the Crimean War (1854 56) on British literary culture. Zusammenfassung This book studies the influence of the Crimean War (1854–6) on British literary culture, this book explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to the original 'media war'. By looking at journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art, the book demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this event. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stefanie Markovits, Stefanie (Yale University Markovits
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521112376
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11237-6
• Seiten: 304
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft