Dead Men Telling Tales - Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914

Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century.

Sommario

• Introduction


• Part I: Authors


• 1: The Language of War


• 2: Before the Ink Dries


• 3: Iberian War Writing


• 4: The Myth of the Accidental Author


• Part II: Books


• 5: Scribblomania


• 6: Editors and Afterlives


• 7: Circulation and Transnational Memory


• Conclusion: War for Sale

Info autore

Dr Matilda Greig is a Research Associate at Cardiff University, working on the AHRC-funded project 'Strange Meetings: Enemy Encounters 1800-2020', and has previously held research and teaching posts at University College Dublin and Sciences Po. She completed her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence in 2018, and holds an MA from Leiden University and a BA from the University of Cambridge. Matilda writes about the cultural history of war, particularly soldiers' memoirs and popular material culture, and specialises in modern European and Atlantic history. Her work has been published in History Workshop Journal, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Hypothèses.

Riassunto

Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century.

Testo aggiuntivo

Superbly crafted and most welcome addition to scholarship about the Peninsular War experience and the publishing phenomenon its veteran authors started.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Matilda Greig, Matilda (Research Associate Greig
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.06.2021
• EAN: 9780192896025
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289602-5
• Pagine: 268
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Specific wars and campaigns, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Napoleonic Wars, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions