Martial masculinities (eBook)

Michael Brown is Reader in History at the University of Roehampton Anna Maria Barry is a Research Assistant at the Royal College of Music Museum Joanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University

Introduction - Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato
Part I: Experiencing martial masculinities
1 Burying Lord Uxbridge’s leg: the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century – Julia Banister
2 Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793–1815 – Louise Carter
3 Recalling the comforts of home: bachelor soldiers’ narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior – Helen Metcalfe
4 Charles Incledon: a singing sailor on the Georgian stage – Anna Maria Barry
5 Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain: memory, masculinity and nation – Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato
Part II: Imagining martial masculinities
6 Hunger and cannibalism: James Hogg’s deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! – Barbara Leonardi
7 Model military men: Charlotte Yonge and the ‘martial ardour’ of ‘a soldier’s daughter’ – Susan Walton
8 ‘And the individual withers’: Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity – Lorenzo Servitje
9 Charlotte Brönte’s ‘warrior priest’: St John Rivers and the language of war – Karen Turner
10 ‘Something which every boy can learn’: accessible knightly masculinities in children’s Arthuriana, 1903–11 – Elly McCausland
11 ‘A story of treasure, war, and wild adventure’: hero-worship, 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
Index