War Memories The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture [Paperback]

The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had an enduring influence on the collective memory of all European nations and regions, and have given them an international dimension. These essays look at how the French Wars were remembered in personal diaries, paintings and literature, allowing a comparative analysis with atransnational perspective.List of Illustrations Foreword to the Series Notes on Contributors Preface; A.Forrest , ?.Fran?ois & K.Hagemann Introduction: War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture; A.Forrest , ?.Fran?ois & K.Hagemann PART I: MEMORIES IN PERSONAL WRITINGS War, Experience and Memory: An Austrian Cavalry Officer Narrates the Napoleonic Wars; L.James Remembering the Other: The Peninsular War in the Autobiographical Accounts of British and French Soldiers; L.Montroussier-Favre Bayonets Across the Hedges: British Civilian Diaries and the War at Home, 1793 1815; C.Kennedy Conquered Territories and Entangled Histories: The Perception of Franco-German and German-Polish Borderlands in German Travelogues, 1792 1820; B.Struck Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and Nineteenth-Century Orientalism: Perceptions and Memories in Autobiographical Accounts and Novels; M-C.Thoral PART II: MEMORY AND NOVELS Warrior Sailors and Heroic Boys: Images of Masculinity in English Nautical Novels on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; L.Peters German Patriots and French Soldiers: Memories of the Napoleonic Wars in German Historical Novels on the Rhineland; M.Schultz Female Heroism: Images of Patriotic Women in Nineteenth Century Russian Historical Novels of the War of 1812; R.Leiserowitz Part III: MEMORY, CULTURAL PRACTICES AND MATERIAL CULTURE Monumental Memories: State Commemoration of the Napoleonic Wars in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain; H.Hoock National Symbols and the Politics of Memory: The Prussian Iron Cross of 1813, its Cultural Context and its Aftermath; K.Hagemann Part IV: MEMORY AND VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS The Memory l�