TY - JOUR
AB - REVIEWS 473 converged during the Crimean War through the popular figure of the gentle soldier. This conflict’s military man of feeling is defined by his moral consciousness, his capacity for homemaking, his care for children, and his nursing of the wounded, thereby pointing towards how the binding of masculinity with warfare can be at once unpicked and rewoven. Commanding an exciting range of theoretical positions, Furneaux explains in her introduction that persistent cliche´s of the Victorian stiff upper lip and of romantic manly bravado are indeed complicated by the period’s pronounced interest in male emotional literacy. Throughout, she carefully underlines the ways in which modern industrialized civilizations can seek to make the horrors of combat emotionally tolerable for soldiers and civilians alike. The first three chapters look at how novelists of the time depicted masculine emotion and tactility on the front, while the final three chapters turn to previously unstudied writing and craft produced by soldiers themselves. Chapter 1 discusses William Makepeace Thackeray’s character of Colonel Newcome as the exemplary military man of feeling, through whom the traditionally flamboyant aristocratic model was supplanted by values of bourgeois domesticity. Chapter 2 examines how this shift from the heroics of violence 
TI - Karman, James. Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet.
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqw038
DA - 2016-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/karman-james-robinson-jeffers-poet-and-prophet-ucbvYM7K2B
SP - 473
EP - 473
VL - 52
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -