A ground-breaking study of how literature both reflected and contributed to the eclipse and subsequent revival of militarism in the nineteenth century. Focusing on four major disputes in the Crimea, India, the Sudan, and South Africa as well as the role of the army in Britain, John Peck examines how Victorian writers responded to military issues. At the heart of the book is a dilemma that characterises the Victorian period: the impossibility of reconciling imperial aggression with liberal domestic values.
- ISBN10 0312212984
- ISBN13 9780312212988
- Publish Date 1 June 1998 (first published 13 May 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English