Military Men of Feeling: Masculinity, Emotion and Tactility in Victorian Warfare

有感情的军人：维多利亚战争中的男子气概、情感和触觉

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K006878/1
负责人：
Holly Furneaux
金额：
$ 13.76万
依托单位：
University of Leicester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK006878%2F1
关键词：
Military Men Feeling Masculinity Emotion

项目摘要

The project explores a key, but previously unrecognised, figure in the history of masculinity: the Victorian military man of feeling. Using a wide range of cultural forms, including literature, reportage and exhibited visual art, as well as craft and writing produced by soldiers and their families and friends, the project makes a case for the cultural centrality of the ideal of soldierly gentleness throughout the nineteenth century. It augments a growing body of work on the diversity of Victorian masculinities, focusing on the previously unrehabilitated figure of the soldier, still held as an imaginative icon for the uncommunicative, stiff-upper-lipped model of nineteenth-century manliness. Recognising a widespread emphasis on soldiers' emotional articulacy and aptitude for physical care, this project deposes stubbornly persistent ideas about masculinity in this period as well as enhancing our understanding of the complexities of battlefield feeling. The central research is organised thematically, with sections each treating a different facet of felt experience, with feeling interpreted, through theories of affect and materiality, in its broadest sense, to comprise emotion, tactility and sensation:1) Reading War: Paranoid and Reparative Strategies and the Politics of AffectThe project begins with a self-conscious examination of its political implications, considering how far representations of the gentle soldier suggest a revision of attitudes towards to warfare and the extent to which they can be deployed in the service of militaristic agenda.2) "The company of gentlemen": Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling and the Eighteenth-century TraditionColonel Newcome, protagonist of the novel Thackeray published during the Crimean war, is inspired by Orme's bloodthirsty and imperialistic Tales of India, while his literary hero is Richardson's pacifistic Sir Charles Grandison. This section traces competing models and literary legacies of manliness, from C18th Imperialist history and sentimental fiction, up to Colonel Newcome's popularity with WW1 soldiers.3) Sentimental Soldiers: Dickens's Christmas Writings and the Heroics of EmotionDickens's Christmas number for Household Words of 1854, a tale of physically and morally restorative soldiering, participated directly in the journal's engagement with the Crimean war through detailed reportage. I consider how sentimental treatments of the soldier in fiction and art, responded to the journalistic representation of the Crimea and broader calls for army reform.4) "Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son": Family Feeling in the CrimeaHere I bring together literary and first-hand treatments of the regiment as family, focusing on an extraordinary, previously unstudied album held at NAM, which records responses to the death of Captain Lempriere in the Crimea, the diminutive "child of the 55th regiment". 5) Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield AdoptionThis section accounts for the extra-ordinary proliferation of the narrative of the soldier adopting a dispossessed child in the literature, art and music of the 1850s and 60s. 6) Soldier Art: Textiles and TactilityWhile 'Trench Art' of the First World War has received detailed treatment, the range of art and craft produced by soldiers in the Crimea has not been studied. I consider the non-militaristic felt experience of soldiers who knitted and quilted.7) Reparative Soldiering: Cultures of Male Care-givingNightingale's legacy has totally eclipsed the male provision of physical care in the Crimea. This section recognises the contribution of ambulance men, wound dressers and orderlies using previously unstudied material at the Wellcome library. Afterword: Legacies of the Gentle Soldier in the 21st CenturyA research group, which places this central project in an international context, and a range of Impact events will be central to the development of the thinking outlined here.

该项目探索了男性气概历史上一个关键但以前未被认识的人物：维多利亚时代的感性军人。该项目利用了广泛的文化形式，包括文学、报告文学和视觉艺术展览，以及士兵及其家人和朋友创作的工艺品和写作，证明了整个十九世纪军人温柔理想的文化中心地位。世纪。它丰富了越来越多关于维多利亚时代男性气质多样性的作品，重点关注以前未恢复的士兵形象，仍然被认为是十九世纪沉默寡言、守口如瓶的男子气概的富有想象力的偶像。该项目认识到人们普遍重视士兵的情感表达和身体护理能力，因此抛弃了这一时期关于男性气质的顽固观念，并增强了我们对战场感觉复杂性的理解。中心研究按主题组织，每个部分处理感受体验的不同方面，通过情感和物质性理论解释感受，在最广泛的意义上包括情感、触觉和感觉：1）阅读战争：偏执和修复影响的策略和政治该项目首先对其政治含义进行自觉的审视，考虑温和士兵的代表在多大程度上表明了对战争态度的修正以及他们可以部署的程度2）“绅士的陪伴”：萨克雷的军人情感和十八世纪传统纽科姆上校是克里米亚战争期间出版的小说萨克雷的主角，他的灵感来自于奥姆的嗜血和帝国主义的印度故事，而他的文学英雄是理查森笔下的和平主义者查尔斯·格兰迪森爵士。本节追溯了男子气概的竞争模式和文学遗产，从十八世纪的帝国主义历史和感伤小说，一直到纽科姆上校在第一次世界大战士兵中的受欢迎。3) 感伤的士兵：狄更斯的圣诞作品和情感英雄狄更斯的 1854 年家庭词汇圣诞编号，讲述了身体和道德恢复的军人故事，通过详细的报道直接参与了该杂志对克里米亚战争的参与报告文学。我考虑小说和艺术中对士兵的感伤处理如何回应克里米亚的新闻报道和更广泛的军队改革呼吁。4）“我们可怜的上校爱他，就像他是自己的儿子一样”：克里米亚在这里，我将有关该团作为家庭的文学和第一手资料汇集在一起，重点关注在 NAM 举办的一张非凡的、以前未被研究过的专辑，该专辑记录了人们对克里米亚伦普里埃上尉之死的反应，伦普里埃上尉是一个身材矮小的“克里米亚之子”。第55团”。 5) 军团中的孩子：战场收养的叙事本节讲述了 1850 年代和 60 年代的文学、艺术和音乐中士兵收养被剥夺儿童的叙事的异常扩散。 6）士兵艺术：纺织品和触感虽然第一次世界大战的“战壕艺术”已经得到了详细的研究，但克里米亚士兵制作的艺术和手工艺品的范围还没有被研究过。我认为编织和绗缝的士兵的非军国主义感受体验。7）修复性士兵：男性护理文化南丁格尔的遗产完全掩盖了克里米亚男性提供的身体护理。本节表彰救护人员、伤口包扎员和勤务人员使用威康图书馆以前未研究过的材料做出的贡献。后记：21 世纪温柔士兵的遗产一个研究小组将这一中心项目置于国际背景下，而一系列影响事件将成为此处概述的思维发展的核心。