On Not Reading The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service

Autor:	Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Representation (arts) Object (philosophy) Archival research Compendium Visual arts Reading (process) Military history Field service media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Victorian Culture. 22:40-56
ISSN:	1750-0133 1355-5502
DOI:	10.1080/13555502.2016.1243144
Popis:	This essay focuses on Garnet Wolseley’s controversial war instruction manual, The Soldier’s Pocket-book for Field Service (1869). While the Pocket-book’s contribution to discussions of reading and soldiers’ education has carved out a significant place for it in Victorian military history, in its day it was constantly contested and undermined by contradictory representations, as a book much talked about but little read. This essay is an exercise in tracing these eccentric reception histories, as an acute reminder that books may well have vibrant intellectual lives without actually being read. To examine the literary and material circulation of the Pocket-book in the late nineteenth century, it draws on archival research in the Macmillan Archive and Wolseley’s private papers to discuss the genesis of the text not just as a compendium of information but also as an object that is handled, carried, and exchanged. I juxtapose these considerations with episodes in the representation of the Pocket-book: i...
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