The military memoir and romantic literary culture, 1780-1835 / Neil Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, Neil.

Series:

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

The nineteenth century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Soldiers' writings, English.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Historiography.

Peninsular War, 1807-1814.

Historiography.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.

Soldiers.

Romanticism.

History.

Great Britain.

Autobiography.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409410348

140941034X

OCLC:

747099225