This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedin…
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Military Man and Augustan Anxieties -- 'A Pen and Ink War': The Standing Army Debate -- 'Soldiers by Instinct': The Anti-Standing Army Argument -- …
This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Julia Banister's discussion draws on a range of printed materials, including canonical li…
This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedin…