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Informationen zum Autor Michael Brown is Senior Lecturer in History at Roehampton University Klappentext This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. Zusammenfassung This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato Part I: Experiencing martial masculinities1 Burying Lord Uxbridge's leg: the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century - Julia Banister2 Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793-1815 - Louise Carter3 Recalling the comforts of home: bachelor soldiers' narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior - Helen Metcalfe4 Charles Incledon: a singing sailor on the Georgian stage - Anna Maria Barry5 Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain: memory, masculinity and nation - Michael Brown and Joanne BegiatoPart II: Imagining martial masculinities6 Hunger and cannibalism: James Hogg's deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! - Barbara Leonardi7 Model military men: Charlotte Yonge and the 'martial ardour' of 'a soldier's daughter' - Susan Walton8 'And the individual withers': Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity - Lorenzo Servitje9 Charlotte Brönte's 'warrior priest': St John Rivers and the language of war - Karen Turner10 'Something which every boy can learn': accessible knightly masculinities in children's Arthuriana, 1903-11 - Elly McCausland11 'A story of treasure, war, and wild adventure': hero-worship, imperial masculinities, and inter-generational ideologies in H. Rider Haggard's 1880s fiction - Helen GoodmanEpilogue: gendered virtue, gendered vigour and gendered valour - Isaac LandIndex
