The Crimean War in the British Imagination

Abstract

Preface: the blossom of war A brief history of the war: Part I. Rushing into Print: Journalism and the Crimean War: 1. 'The Times war' 2. 'Mr. Russell's 'war 3. 'The people's war' Part II. From Amyas Leigh to Aurora Leigh: Gender and Heroism in the Novels of the Crimean War: 1. Eastward ho?: the Kingsleys, the Crimean War, and the novel 2. From East and West to North and South 3. 'Heroic womanhood' Part III. 'The Song that Nerves a Nation's Heart': The Poetry of The Crimean War: 1. The poetic (battle-) field 2. Giving voice to the war: Tennyson's Charge and Maud's battle-song Part IV. Painters of Modern Life: (Re)mediating the Crimean War in the Art of John Leech and John Everett Millais: 1. 'Nothing like knowing the country' 2. Playing at war 3. Peace concluded? Afterword: Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler, the roll call, and the afterlife of the Crimean War.

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