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The Crimean War in the British Imagination (Paperback)
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The Crimean War in the British Imagination (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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The Crimean War (1854-6) was the first to be fought in the era of
modern communications, and it had a profound influence on British
literary culture, bringing about significant shifts in perceptions
of heroism and national identity. In this book, Stefanie Markovits
explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to an
unpopular war: one in which home-front reaction was conditioned by
an unprecedented barrage of information arriving from the front.
This history had formal consequences. How does patriotic poetry
translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? How does the shape
of literary heroism adjust to a war that produced not only heroes
but a heroine, Florence Nightingale? How does the predominant mode
of journalism affect artistic representations of 'the real'? By
looking at the journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art produced
in response to the war, Stefanie Markovits demonstrates the
tremendous cultural force of this relatively short conflict.
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