Children of the regiment: soldiers, adoption, and military tenderness in Victorian culture

Furneaux, Holly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-1975 2013. Children of the regiment: soldiers, adoption, and military tenderness in Victorian culture. Victorian Review 39 (2) , pp. 79-96. 10.1353/vcr.2013.0046

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Abstract

The plot of soldiers becoming adoptive parents as they care for neglected children encountered on campaigns or displaced by war is surprisingly prevalent in mid-Victorian British literature and art. This article explores this persistent idea of the regimental family, asking why gentleness—tactile and emotional—is such a recurrent feature in representations of the soldier, and considering how a particularly domesticated paternal ideal is ideologically mobilized in war narratives.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Additional Information:	Awarded Editors’ Prize for the best article published in the journal over the year
Publisher:	Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79997

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