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- Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of New Hampshire Press
- Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
summary
Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, establishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and World War I.
Based on extensive research in French and American archives, and enriched by his reading of Napoleonic military memoirs and French military fiction from Hugo and Balzac to Zola and Proust, Brian Joseph Martin's view encompasses a broad range of emotional and erotic relationships in French armies from 1789 to 1916. He argues that the French Revolution's emphasis on military fraternity evolved into an unprecedented sense of camaraderie among soldiers in the armies of Napoleon. For many soldiers, the hardships of combat led to intimate friendships. For some, the homosociality of military life inspired mutual affection, lifelong commitment, and homoerotic desire.
Based on extensive research in French and American archives, and enriched by his reading of Napoleonic military memoirs and French military fiction from Hugo and Balzac to Zola and Proust, Brian Joseph Martin's view encompasses a broad range of emotional and erotic relationships in French armies from 1789 to 1916. He argues that the French Revolution's emphasis on military fraternity evolved into an unprecedented sense of camaraderie among soldiers in the armies of Napoleon. For many soldiers, the hardships of combat led to intimate friendships. For some, the homosociality of military life inspired mutual affection, lifelong commitment, and homoerotic desire.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- I: Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815
- pp. 17-18
- II: Waterloo, 1815
- pp. 101-102
- III: Restoration to Second Empire, 1815-70
- pp. 171-172
- Epilogue: Unknown Soldiers
- pp. 271-272
- Bibliography
- pp. 329-350
- Library of Congress Data
- p. 380
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584659440
Related ISBN(s)
9781584659235
MARC Record
OCLC
694600733
Pages
400
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-31
Language
English
Open Access
No