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Masculinity, militarism and the eighteenth-century culture, 1689-1815
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Masculinity, militarism and the eighteenth-century culture, 1689-1815 / Julia Banister.
ISBN
9781107195196
1107195195
9781316646670
131664667X
9781108163927
1108163920
9781108173704
1108173705
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
vii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
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.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction : debating military masculinity
The military man and Augustan anxieties : Trenchard, Steele, Boswell
Performing military professionalism : the trials of Admirals Thomas Mathews and Richard Lestock, 1744-6
The new old military hero : the trial of Admiral John Byng, 1756-7
The military man and the return to the gothic past : Hume, Hurd, Walpole
The military man and the culture of sensibility : Smith, Ferguson, Mackenzie
Making military celebrity : the trials of Admirals Keppel and Palliser, 1778-9
(De)romanticizing military heroism : Clarke, Southey, Austen
Conclusion : rethinking military masculinity.
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