Mercenaries in British and American literature, 1790-1830 : writing, fighting, and marrying for money
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Mercenaries in British and American literature, 1790-1830 : writing, fighting, and marrying for money
（Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures / series editors, Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor）
Edinburgh University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-191) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The presence in Romantic-era literature of the mercenary is historically important, but often neglected. This book proposes the mercenary as a focal point for transatlantic analysis in both American and European contexts. The mercenary of popular imagination disregards patriotic feeling in contracting to serve whatever commander will pay well. Like the slave, the mercenary ends up obeying a master with no claim of national, religious, or familial affiliation. The mercenary's choice to serve an alien master (often by crossing the Atlantic) thus stands at once for the overindulgence of freedom and the failure to appreciate its value. Substantial primary research underpins an argument with suggestive metaphorical and symbolic implications traced through a range of writing by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Byron and Charlotte Smith.
目次
- Introduction: Mercenary, Contractor, Volunteer, Slave
- 1. Ormond's Fighters: Authorship, Soldiering, and the Transatlantic Charles Brockden Brown
- 2. Encountering the Mercenary: Native American Auxiliaries, the American Revolution, and Charlotte Smith
- 3. 'A Good One though Rather for the Foreign Market': Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and the Romantic Mercenary
- 4. Loyalty, Independence, and James Fenimore Cooper's Revolution
- 5. The Bravos of Venice
- Epilogue: Mercenaries and the Modern Military
- Works Cited
- Index.
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