Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Army in Victorian Literature and Life -- Introduction -- The Novels of Charles Lever -- The Victorian Army -- Tennyson and Victorian War Poetry -- 2 The Crimean:...
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Army in Victorian Literature and Life -- Introduction -- The Novels of Charles Lever -- The Victorian Army -- Tennyson and Victorian War Poetry -- 2 The Crimean: a Novelists' War -- Reports and Responses -- William Russell's Crimean Despatches -- The Memoirs of Mary Seacole and Elizabeth Davis -- Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! -- 3 Thackeray and the Culture of War -- The Culture of War -- Barry Lyndon and Vanity Fair -- Henry Esmond -- The Virginians -- 4 The Army Abroad: Fictions of India and the Indian Mutiny -- The Indian Mutiny -- W.D. Arnold's Oakfield -- From Anger to Christian Militarism -- Indian Mutiny Novels -- 5 The Army at Home: from Disraeli to Hardy -- Military Duties in the United Kingdom -- 'When can the soldiers be here?': Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Benjamin Disraeli and Charlotte Brontë -- Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Great Expectations -- Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and The Trumpet-Major -- 6 Heroes -- Ouida's Under Two Flags -- Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution and Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake -- The Sudan -- General Charles Gordon -- 7 Kipling's Militarism -- Kipling in Context -- Kipling's Soldiers -- Kipling's Men and Women -- Kipling and the Novel -- 8 The Boer War -- Siege Warfare -- The Boer War in Fiction -- New Responses -- The Poetry of the Boer War -- Notes -- Index.
Preface -- The Army in Victorian Literature and Life -- The Crimean: A Novelists' War -- Thackeray and the Culture of War -- The Army Abroad: Fictions of India and the Indian Mutiny -- The Army at Home: From Disraeli to Hardy -- Heroes -- Kipling's...
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Preface -- The Army in Victorian Literature and Life -- The Crimean: A Novelists' War -- Thackeray and the Culture of War -- The Army Abroad: Fictions of India and the Indian Mutiny -- The Army at Home: From Disraeli to Hardy -- Heroes -- Kipling's Militarism -- The Boer War -- Notes -- Index. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the military era of Wellington yielded to a new kind of liberal society, the mid-Victorians turning their backs on the army. In the last two decades of the century, however, there was a thorough-going resurgence of militarism. This major new study of the Victorian period considers the way in which literature both reflected and contributed to a double process of social change
