The military memoir and romantic literary culture, 1780-1835
By: by Neil Ramsey
Series: The Nineteenth century series
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.; Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Aldershot Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781409410348
Subjects: Historiography; Autobiography; English prose literature; History and criticism; Romanticism; Peninsular War, 1807-1824; Soldiers' writings, English; Soldiers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modern war and the suffering soldier; title: The genre of the military memoir, 1780-1835; title: The sentimental military memoir, 1780-1825; title: Military authors and the commemoration of war, 1825-1835; title: The military memoir and the sacrifices of war; title: Suffering and the spectacle of modern war : Robert Ker Porter's Letters from Portugal and Spain; title: "An atom of an army" : the sentimental soldier's tale and Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-First; title: Romantic authorship and picturesque war : Moyle Sherer's Recollections of the peninsula and George Gleig's The subaltern; title: The cheerful stoicism of the soldier hero : John Kincaid's Adventures in the rifle brigade; title: Conclusion : "A plain unvarnished tale" : the military author and the romance of war; title: Appendix.