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The Crimean War in the British Imagination. by Stefanie Markovits

Stefanie Markovits

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The Crimean War (1854-6) was the first to be fought in the era of modern communications, and it had a profound influence on British literary culture, bringing about significant shifts in perceptions of heroism and national identity. In this book, Stefanie Markovits explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to an unpopular war: one in which home-front reaction was conditioned by an unprecedented barrage of information arriving from the front. This history had formal consequences. How does patriotic poetry translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? How does the shape of literary heroism adjust to a war that produced not only heroes but a heroine, Florence Nightingale? How does the predominant mode of journalism affect artistic representations of 'the real'? By looking at the journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art produced in response to the war, Stefanie Markovits demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this relatively short conflict.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 3rd, 2013
  • Pages: 306
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.64in - 0.91lb
  • EAN: 9781107412644
  • Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Praise for this book

"...Stefanie Markovits provides a valuable account of the predominance of that war in mid-century Victorian cultural forms. Her book brings together discussions of fiction, poetry, and visual arts of the late 1850s to demonstrate not only the topicality of the Crimean conflict, but also its shaping role in discourses not typically associated with politics."
Victorian Studies
"... [an] imaginative and thought-provoking study ..."
Contemporary Review