Introduction : modern war and the suffering soldier
The genre of the military memoir, 1780-1835
The sentimental military memoir, 1780-1825
Military authors and the commemoration of war, 1825-1835
The military memoir and the sacrifices of war
Suffering and the spectacle of modern war : Robert Ker Porter's Letters from Portugal and Spain
"An atom of an army" : the sentimental soldier's tale and Journal of a soldier of the Seventy-First
Romantic authorship and picturesque war : Moyle Sherer's Recollections of the peninsula and George Gleig's The subaltern
The cheerful stoicism of the soldier hero : John Kincaid's Adventures in the rifle brigade
Conclusion : "A plain unvarnished tale" : the military author and the romance of war
Appendix.
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The military memoir and romantic literary culture, 1780-1835 by Neil Ramsey. ISBN 9781409410348. Published by Ashgate Pub. Co. in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
