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OverviewFollowing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Joseph MartinPublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: University Press of New England Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781584659563ISBN 10: 1584659564 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 10 February 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[Napoleonic Friendship] is a work of solid historiography and level-headed literary analysis. --The Gay & Lesbian Review This eye-opening study fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of nineteenth-century French literature and the history of relations among men. Ambitious in scope, Napoleonic Friendship explores the intense, intimate male friendships fostered by military reforms from the revolutionary period to World War I. Informed by queer theory and masculinity studies, Martin's analysis of the memoirs of military men and of the novels and lives of Balzac, Stendhal, Hugo, Zola and Proust deftly avoids the temptations of anachronism. His fresh and often moving account evokes a patriarchal world without women where homosociality, and sometimes homosexuality, were both desirable and necessary. --Margaret Waller, Pomona College Much of Martin's analysis, and especially his deconstruction of tender relations between men, which challenge traditional notions about male homoerotic relations, especially in a military setting as essentially sexual rather than affectionate, is fascinating. The Historian Much of Martin s analysis, and especially his deconstruction of tender relations between men, which challenge traditional notions about male homoerotic relations, especially in a military setting as essentially sexual rather than affectionate, is fascinating. The Historian Author InformationBRIAN JOSEPH MARTIN is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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