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.

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University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

John Peck

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John Peck is now retired and was formerly Reader in Victorian Literature at Cardiff University, UK. With Martin Coyle he edits the Key Concepts series for Palgrave Macmillan.

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Book Title: War, the Army and Victorian Literature
Authors: John Peck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378803
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69852-5Published: 13 May 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37880-3Published: 13 May 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 218
Topics: History of Early Modern Europe, Military and Defence Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History

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