Letters Written During a Captivity of Upwards of Six Years in France
Author : M. [from old catalogue]. Miller
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Release : 1814
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Author : M. [from old catalogue]. Miller
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File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1814
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Author : France
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1814
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Author : An Officer of His Majesty's Late Ship Wolverene
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File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1814
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
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Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351885677
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.
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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1815
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Author : Samuel Halkett
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1815
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Author : William Brown
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : South Kensington Museum. Forster Collection
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Page : 768 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 1888
Category : English literature
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