Off the Chart: The Crimean War in British Public Consciousness
Journal: 19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Year: 2015

The Crimean War revealed in this issue of <em>19</em> is of such rich and varied historical interest as to make a mystery of its relative obscurity with the general public in the UK. My own article adopts a novelist’s perspective to chart some aspects of this popular decline, exploring the treatment of the Siege of Sebastopol through the media of painting, literature, and cinema, and considering whether those aspects of the war that have made the greatest impression on the public mind are also t