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War, the Army and Victorian Literature

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  • © 1998

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  1. John Peck

    1. University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Army in Victorian Literature and Life

    • John Peck
    Pages 1-25

  3. The Crimean: a Novelists’ War

    • John Peck
    Pages 26-47

  4. Thackeray and the Culture of War

    • John Peck
    Pages 48-70

  5. The Army Abroad: Fictions of India and the Indian Mutiny

    • John Peck
    Pages 71-93

  6. The Army at Home: from Disraeli to Hardy

    • John Peck
    Pages 94-116

  7. Heroes

    • John Peck
    Pages 117-140

  8. Kipling’s Militarism

    • John Peck
    Pages 141-163

  9. The Boer War

    • John Peck
    Pages 164-187

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 188-218
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About this book

A ground-breaking study of how literature both reflected and contributed to the eclipse and subsequent revival of militarism in the nineteenth century. Focusing on four major disputes in the Crimea, India, the Sudan, and South Africa as well as the role of the army in Britain, John Peck examines how Victorian writers responded to military issues. At the heart of the book is a dilemma that characterises the Victorian period: the impossibility of reconciling imperial aggression with liberal domestic values.

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  • University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

    John Peck

About the author

John Peck is now retired and was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With Martin Coyle he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan.

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