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
