Napoleonic Friendship : Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France.
Title:
Napoleonic Friendship : Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France.
Author:
Martin, Brian Joseph.
ISBN:
9781584659440
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Series:
Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- I: Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 -- 1: Military Fraternity from the Revolution to Napoleon -- 2: Napoleonic Friendship at the Top - Marshal Lannes, General Duroc, General Junot -- 3: Napoleonic Friendship in the Ranks - General Marbot, Captain Coignet, Sergeant Bourgogne -- II: Waterloo, 1815 -- 4: Wannabes & Waterloo - Stendhal's Napoleonic Latecomers -- 5: Grave Friendship - Hugo's Miserable Waterloo -- 6: An Army of Bachelors - Napoleonic Veterans from Blaze to Balzac -- III: Restoration to Second Empire, 1815-70 -- 7: Combat Companions & Veteran Bedfellows - Balzac's Major Hulot and Colonel Chabert -- 8: Military Daddies & Veteran Rogues - Balzac's Major Genestas and Colonel Bridau -- 9: Neo-Napoleonic Friendship - Maupassant, Zola, and the War of 1870 -- Conclusion: Homo Military Modernity - Proust and the First World War -- Epilogue: Unknown Soldiers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The first book-length study of the origin of queer soldiers in modern France.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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