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Autor:
Matilda Greig
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Dead Men Telling Tales
This concluding chapter provides a summary of the key points made in the book. It emphasises that a new methodology is needed for analysing Napoleonic war memoirs, and indeed war memoirs in general, one which includes a closer consideration of the ac
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.003.0009
Autor:
Matilda Greig
The end of the Napoleonic Wars coincided with a phenomenal rise in the number and variety of war memoirs being written by veterans of all ranks, yet historians have mostly argued that these books made little impact on the general reading public. This
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.003.0006
Autor:
Matilda Greig
Publikováno v:
Dead Men Telling Tales
This final chapter examines the international scope of the Napoleonic war memoir genre. Widespread and often illegal practices of reprinting and translating veterans’ autobiographies ensured that narratives of the Peninsular War circulated extensiv
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Autor:
Matilda GREIG
Dead Men Telling Tales is an account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spa
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.001.0001
Autor:
Matilda Greig
Publikováno v:
Dead Men Telling Tales
Peninsular War veterans often faced a difficult transition back into civilian society after the conflict, receiving inadequate pay and little official commemoration. This led to a common fear, expressed explicitly in their memoirs, that their stories
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.003.0003
Autor:
Matilda Greig
This chapter explores the roots of the modern war memoir genre. It debunks the enduring idea that in the early nineteenth century the Iberian peninsula did not produce military autobiographies, or any autobiographical writing at all, comparable to th
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Autor:
Matilda Greig
This chapter reveals the complex afterlives of Peninsular War memoirs, many of which outlived their authors and continued to be published and re-published in different formats over the long nineteenth century. It considers the many different groups o
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.003.0007
Autor:
Matilda Greig
Publikováno v:
Dead Men Telling Tales
This chapter provides an account of how Peninsular War memoir-writers depicted being a soldier in the early nineteenth century. It considers both positive and negative representations of the experience of war, covering themes such as daily life on ca
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896025.003.0002
Autor:
Matilda Greig
Publikováno v:
Dead Men Telling Tales
This chapter explores the concept of soldiers as professional authors, confronting the enduring myth of ‘accidental’ military autobiography. In their prefaces, veterans of the Peninsular War frequently confessed their astonishment at having produ
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