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Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era - Charlotte Yonge's Models of Manliness (Paperback)
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Beginning with the premise that women's perceptions of manliness
are crucial to its construction, The author focuses on the life and
writings of Charlotte Yonge as a prism for understanding the
formulation of masculinities in the Victorian period. Yonge was a
prolific writer whose bestselling fiction and extensive journalism
enjoyed a wide readership. The author situates Yonge's work in the
context of her family connections with the army, showing that an
interlocking of worldly and spiritual warfare was fundamental to
Yonge's outlook. For Yonge, all good Christians are soldiers, and
Walton argues persuasively that the medievalised discourse of
sanctified violence executed by upright moral men that is often
connected with late nineteenth-century Imperialism began earlier in
the century, and that Yonge's work was one major strand that gave
it substance. Of significance, Yonge also endorsed missionary work,
which she viewed as an extension of a father's duties in the
neighborhood and which was closely allied to a vigorous promotion
of refashioned Tory paternalism. The author's study is rich in
historical context, including Yonge's connections with the
Tractarians, the effects of industrialization, and Britain's
Imperial enterprises. Informed by extensive archival scholarship,
Walton offers important insights into the contradictory messages
about manhood current in the mid-nineteenth century through the
works of a major but undervalued Victorian author.
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