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The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers
during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of
these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public
during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and
Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful
genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that
flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped
nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as
Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's
middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance
through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows,
the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial
success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey
assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider
understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to
the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and
the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a
sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier,
impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the
soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering
established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs
by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a
sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played
an important role in developing ideas of a national war and
functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of
war.
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