Martial Masculinities

Michael Brown is Reader in History at the University of RoehamptonAnna Maria Barry is a Research Assistant at the Royal College of Music MuseumJoanne Begiato is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University

• Introduction - Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato Part I: Experiencing martial masculinities1 Burying Lord Uxbridge’s leg: the body of the hero in the early nineteenth century – Julia Banister2 Brothers in arms? Martial masculinities and family feeling in old soldiers' memoirs, 1793–1815 – Louise Carter3 Recalling the comforts of home: bachelor soldiers’ narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior – Helen Metcalfe4 Charles Incledon: a singing sailor on the Georgian stage – Anna Maria Barry5 Visualising the aged veteran in nineteenth-century Britain: memory, masculinity and nation – Michael Brown and Joanne BegiatoPart II: Imagining martial masculinities6 Hunger and cannibalism: James Hogg’s deconstruction of Scottish military masculinities in The Three Perils of Man or War, Women, and Witchcraft! – Barbara Leonardi7 Model military men: Charlotte Yonge and the ‘martial ardour’ of ‘a soldier’s daughter’ – Susan Walton8 ‘And the individual withers’: Tennyson and the enlistment into military masculinity – Lorenzo Servitje9 Charlotte Brönte’s ‘warrior priest’: St John Rivers and the language of war – Karen Turner10 ‘Something which every boy can learn’: accessible knightly masculinities in children’s Arthuriana, 1903–11 – Elly McCausland11 ‘A story of treasure, war, and wild adventure’: hero-worship, imperial masculinities, and inter-generational ideologies in H. Rider Haggard’s 1880s fiction – Helen GoodmanEpilogue: gendered virtue, gendered vigour and gendered valour – Isaac LandIndex

'In a superbly written epilogue, Isaac Land offers a final synthesis of the chapters while presenting his own original research on cross-dressing women in uniform. [...] Ultimately, Martial Masculinities reminds us of the need to look beneath the homogenous surface presented by uniformed, drilled troops in the age of horse and musket. Moreover, it makes it clear that the influence of military gender ideals went far beyond those who donned a uniform.'H-War