The Crimean War in the British Imagination

TitleThe Crimean War in the British Imagination
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsMarkovits, Stefanie
Number of Pages296
PublisherCambridge University Press
CityCambridge, UK
Abstract

Stefanie Markovits explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to an unpopular war: in which home-front reaction was conditioned by an unprecedented barrage of information arriving from the front. The Crimean War (1854-6) was the first to be fought in the era of modern communications, and it had a profound influence on British literary culture, bringing about significant shifts in perceptions of heroism and national identity. This history had formal consequences. How does patriotic poetry translate the blunders of the Crimea into verse? How does the shape of literary heroism adjust to a war that produced not only heroes but a heroine, Florence Nightingale? How does the predominant mode of journalism affect artistic representations of 'the real'? By looking at the journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art produced in response to the war, Stefanie Markovits demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this relatively short conflict.

URLhttps://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1830-1900/crimean-war-british-imagination?format=PB&isbn=9781107412644
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