1st Edition
Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era Charlotte Yonge's Models of Manliness
By Susan Walton
Copyright 2010
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning with the premise that women's perceptions of manliness are crucial to its construction, The author focuses on the life and writings of Charlotte Yonge as a prism for understanding the formulation of masculinities in the Victorian period. Yonge was a prolific writer whose bestselling fiction and extensive journalism enjoyed a wide readership. The author situates Yonge's work in... Read more
Contents: Introduction: 'Make us thine own soldiers true'; Happy warriors? Military matters in the 1850s; Shaping brothers and sons into soldiers I; Shaping brothers and sons into soldiers II; The fatherland of parish and community; The fatherlands of Henrietta's Wish and Hopes and Fears; Missionary men as Christian knights; The heirs of The Heir of Redclyffe in the South Pacific; Charlotte Yonge's historical heroes; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Susan Walton
