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The Crimean War in the British Imagination
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The Crimean War in the British Imagination Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by 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.

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  • Title The Crimean War in the British Imagination
  • Author Stefanie Markovits
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2009-08-20
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780521112376 / 0521112370
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects English literature - 19th century - History, Literature and society - Great Britain -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009022582
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

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  • New York Review of Books, 06/09/2011, Page 47
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