Martial masculinities : experiencing and imagining the military in the long nineteenth century / edited by Michael Brown, Anna Maria Barry and Joanne Begiato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Michael, 1977- editor.

Barry, Anna Maria, editor.

Begiato, Joanne, editor.

Series:

Cultural history of modern war.

Cultural history of modern war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Sociology, Military--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain--History, Military--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white)., digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity, heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato

part I. Experiencing martial masculinities. Burying Lord Uxbridge's leg : the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century / Julia Banister

Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793-1815 / Louise Carter

Recalling the comforts of home : bachelor soldiers' narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior / Helen Metcalfe

Charles Incledon : a singing sailor on the Georgian stage / Anna Maria Barry

Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain : memory, masculinity and nation / Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato

part II. Imagining martial masculinities. Hunger and cannibalism : James Hogg's deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! / Barbara Leonardi

Model military men : Charlotte Yonge and the 'martial ardour' of 'a soldier's daughter' / Susan Walton

'And the individual withers' : Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity / Lorenzo Servitje

Charlotte Brontë's 'warrior priest' : St John Rivers and the language of war / Karen Turner

'Something which every boy can learn' : accessible knightly masculinities in children's Arthuriana, 1903-11 / Elly McCausland

'A story of treasure, war and wild adventure' : heroworship, imperial masculinities and inter-generational ideologies in H. Rider Haggard's 1880s fiction / Helen Goodman

Epilogue : Gendered virtue, gendered vigour and gendered valour / Isaac Land.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and information supplied online (viewed on January 9, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526135643

1526135647

9781526150349

1526150344

9781526135636

1526135639

OCLC:

1113866178