War Memories
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2012
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Date of Publication 20 March 2012
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230272163
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages414 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XXI, 414 p. Illustrations, black & white 0
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The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had an enduring influence on the collective memory of all European nations and regions, and have given them an international dimension. These essays look at how the French Wars were remembered in personal diaries, paintings and literature, allowing a comparative analysis with atransnational perspective.
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List of Illustrations Foreword to the Series Notes on Contributors Preface; A.Forrest , É.François & K.Hagemann Introduction: War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture; A.Forrest , É.François & K.Hagemann PART I: MEMORIES IN PERSONAL WRITINGS War, Experience and Memory: An Austrian Cavalry Officer Narrates the Napoleonic Wars; L.James Remembering the Other: The Peninsular War in the Autobiographical Accounts of British and French Soldiers; L.Montroussier-Favre Bayonets Across the Hedges: British Civilian Diaries and the War at Home, 1793 1815; C.Kennedy Conquered Territories and Entangled Histories: The Perception of Franco-German and German-Polish Borderlands in German Travelogues, 1792 1820; B.Struck Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and Nineteenth-Century Orientalism: Perceptions and Memories in Autobiographical Accounts and Novels; M-C.Thoral PART II: MEMORY AND NOVELS Warrior Sailors and Heroic Boys: Images of Masculinity in English Nautical Novelson the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; L.Peters German Patriots and French Soldiers: Memories of the Napoleonic Wars in German Historical Novels on the Rhineland; M.Schultz Female Heroism: Images of Patriotic Women in Nineteenth Century Russian Historical Novels of the War of 1812; R.Leiserowitz Part III: MEMORY, CULTURAL PRACTICES AND MATERIAL CULTURE Monumental Memories: State Commemoration of the Napoleonic Wars in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain; H.Hoock National Symbols and the Politics of Memory: The Prussian Iron Cross of 1813, its Cultural Context and its Aftermath; K.Hagemann Part IV: MEMORY AND VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS The Memory of War through Cartoons: Imagining the French Invasion of Britain, 1793 1804; R.Reichardt Peasants, Cossacks and the 'Black Tsar': Russian Cartoons during the Wars of 1812 to 1814; M.Peltzer Another lieu de mémoire?: Napoleonic Painting, the Museum, and French Memory; D.O' Brien La pierre et l'empereur: Remembering the Revolutionary and NapoleonicWars in French Lithography; K.Buchinger The Disasters of a People's War: Goya's Image of the Peninsular War and Spanish War Memories; P.K.Klein Heroic Memories: Gendered Images of the Napoleonic Wars in German Feature Films of the Interwar Period; W.Koller Conclusion: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as a Shared and Entangled European lieu de mémoire; É.François Index
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