The military memoir and romantic literary culture, 1780-1835
2011
828.355 R183 2011
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Title
The military memoir and romantic literary culture, 1780-1835
Published
Aldershot Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2011.
Description
xii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
828.355 R183 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)747099225
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-256) and index.
Contents: Introduction : modern war and the suffering soldier -- The genre of the military memoir, 1780-1835 -- The sentimental military memoir, 1780-1825 -- Military authors and the commemoration of war, 1825-1835 -- The military memoir and the sacrifices of war -- Suffering and the spectacle of modern war : Robert Ker Porter's Letters from Portugal and Spain -- "An atom of an army" : the sentimental soldier's tale and Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-First -- Romantic authorship and picturesque war : Moyle Sherer's Recollections of the peninsula and George Gleig's The subaltern -- The cheerful stoicism of the soldier hero : John Kincaid's Adventures in the rifle brigade -- Conclusion : "A plain unvarnished tale" : the military author and the romance of war -- Appendix.
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Contents: Introduction : modern war and the suffering soldier -- The genre of the military memoir, 1780-1835 -- The sentimental military memoir, 1780-1825 -- Military authors and the commemoration of war, 1825-1835 -- The military memoir and the sacrifices of war -- Suffering and the spectacle of modern war : Robert Ker Porter's Letters from Portugal and Spain -- "An atom of an army" : the sentimental soldier's tale and Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-First -- Romantic authorship and picturesque war : Moyle Sherer's Recollections of the peninsula and George Gleig's The subaltern -- The cheerful stoicism of the soldier hero : John Kincaid's Adventures in the rifle brigade -- Conclusion : "A plain unvarnished tale" : the military author and the romance of war -- Appendix.
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