The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780�1835

by Neil Ramsey

Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367887681
• ISBN13: 9780367887681
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"