{"product_id":"military-men-of-feeling-emotion-touch-and-masculinity-in-the-crimean-war-paperback","title":"Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch, and Masculinity in the Crimean War - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHolly Furneaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMilitary Men of Feeling\u003c\/em\u003e considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period. It traces a persistent narrative swerve from tales of war violence to reparative accounts of soldiers as moral exemplars, homemakers, adopters of children on the battlefield, and nurses. This material invites us to think afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism. It challenges ideas about the separation of military and domestic life, and about the incommunicability of war experience. Focusing on representations of soldiers' experiences of touch and emotion, the book combines the work of well known writers - including Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Yonge - with previously unstudied writing and craft produced by British soldiers in the Crimean War, 1854-56. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Crimean War was pivotal in shaping British attitudes to military masculinity. A range of media enabled unprecedented public engagement with the progress and infamous 'blunders' of the conflict. Soldiers and civilians reflected on appropriate behaviour across ranks, forms of heroism, the physical suffering of the troops, administrative management and the need for army reform. The book considers how the military man of feeling contributes to the rethinking of gender roles, class and military hierarchy in the mid-nineteenth century, and how this figure was used in campaigns for reform. The gentle soldier could also do more bellicose social and political work, disarming anti-war critiques and helping people to feel better about war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book looks at the difficult mixed politics of this figure. It considers questions, debated in the nineteenth century and which remain urgent today, about the relationship between feeling and action, and the ethics of an emotional response to war. It makes a case for the importance of emotional and tactile military history, bringing the Victorian military man of feeling into contemporary debates about liberal warriors and soldiers as social workers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolly Furneaux, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English Literature, Cardiff University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHolly Furneaux is a Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is author of \u003cem\u003eQueer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of \u003cem\u003eDickens in Context\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and editor of John Forster's \u003cem\u003eLife of Dickens\u003c\/em\u003e (Sterling, 2011). Research for \u003cem\u003eMilitary Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.75 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156414959751,"sku":"9780192855800","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5f16839e27abcaffa1da0c8871d33906.webp?v=1733243610","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/military-men-of-feeling-emotion-touch-and-masculinity-in-the-crimean-war-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}