This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping
nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two
of the greatest wars the world had ever known. It offers a fresh,
interdisciplinary perspective on an emerging field of study and draws on
historical, literary, visual and musical sources to demonstrate the
centrality of the military and its masculine dimensions in the shaping
of Victorian and Edwardian personal and national identities. Focusing on
both the experience of military service and its imaginative forms, it
examines such topics as bodies and habits, families and domesticity,
heroism and chivalry, religion and militarism, and youth and fantasy.
Martial masculinities will be required reading for anyone interested in
the cultures of war and masculinity in the long nineteenth century.