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Military Men of Feeling - Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War (Paperback)
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Military Men of Feeling - Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War (Paperback)
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Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of
the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent
narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts
of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemakers, adopters of children on
the battlefield, and nurses. This material invites us to think
afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism. It
challenges ideas about the separation of military and domestic
life, and about the incommunicability of war experience. Focusing
on representations of soldiers' experiences of touch and emotion,
the book combines the work of well known writers - including
Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, William Makepeace Thackeray,
Charlotte Yonge - with previously unstudied writing and craft
produced by British soldiers in the Crimean War, 1854-56. The
Crimean War was pivotal in shaping British attitudes to military
masculinity. A range of media enabled unprecedented public
engagement with the progress and infamous 'blunders' of the
conflict. Soldiers and civilians reflected on appropriate behaviour
across ranks, forms of heroism, the physical suffering of the
troops, administrative management and the need for army reform. The
book considers how the military man of feeling contributes to the
rethinking of gender roles, class and military hierarchy in the
mid-nineteenth century, and how this figure was used in campaigns
for reform. The gentle soldier could also do more bellicose social
and political work, disarming anti-war critiques and helping people
to feel better about war. This book looks at the difficult mixed
politics of this figure. It considers questions, debated in the
nineteenth century and which remain urgent today, about the
relationship between feeling and action, and the ethics of an
emotional response to war. It makes a case for the importance of
emotional and tactile military history, bringing the Victorian
military man of feeling into contemporary debates about liberal
warriors and soldiers as social workers.
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