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1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Military Man and Augustan Anxieties; 'A Pen and Ink War': The Standing Army Debate; 'Soldiers by Instinct': The Anti-Standing Army Argument; 'Men ... set Apart': The Pro-Standing Army Position; Being Polite: Steele and The Spectator; Performing Politeness: Boswell's London Journal; Chapter 2 Performing Military Professionalism; Now for the New(s); The New Professional; Performance and the Corpus Rasa; Chapter 3 The New Old Military Hero; Byng's Re-Fangled Defence; A Public Body |
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The New Old HeroChapter 4 The Military Man and the Return to the Gothic Past; Politicizing the Gothic Past; On the Nature of Gothic Chivalry; On the Super( -- )nature of Gothic Bodies; Chapter 5 The Military Man and the Culture of Sensibility; Sympathy, Sentiment and the Military Man; Fellow-Feeling and the 'Warrior-Savage'; Chapter 6 The Making of Military Celebrity; Keppel's Victory; Private Vices, Public Benefits; The Real Deal; The End to Opposition?; Chapter 7 (De)Romanticizing Military Heroism; Sailors of Fortune; Domestic Happiness; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources |
| Summary |
This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedings, this book examines eighteenth-century arguments about masculinity and those that appealed to the 'naturally' sexed body and construed masculinity as social construction and performance. Julia Banister's discussion draws on a range of printed materials, including canonical literary and philosophical texts by David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole and Jane Austen, and texts relating to the naval trials of, amongst others, Admiral John Byng. By mapping eighteenth-century ideas about militarism, including professionalism and heroism, alongside broader cultural concerns with politeness, sensibility, the Gothic past and celebrity, Julia Banister reveals how ideas about masculinity and militarism were shaped by and within eighteenth-century culture |
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Secondary SourcesIndex |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in popular culture.
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Sociology, Military.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Modern
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Masculinity in literature
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Masculinity in popular culture
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Sociology, Military
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: general.
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Military history.
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Gender studies: men & boys.
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United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Ireland.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108173704 |
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1108173705 |
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9781108163927 |
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1108163920 |
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1107195195 |
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9781107195196 |
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131664667X |
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9781316646670 |
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1108168884 |
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9781108168885 |
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