Military surgery as national romance
The memory of British heroic fortitude at Waterloo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Kennaway (University of Roehampton, Roehampton, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | War & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0729-2473 • E-ISSN: 2042-4345 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07292473.2020.1741771 |
| PMID | 32405373 |
| OpenAlex | W3019589827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper shows the ways that tales of stoicism during surgery at the Battle of Waterloo came to be a significant part of the ideological framework of Romantic Militarism. Celebrating the killing of enemies clashed with ideals of politeness, but hailing a soldier's powers of endurance in surgery was an acceptable way of extolling courage, framing lived experience of agony into narratives of exalted pain, masculine fortitude and quasi-religious patriotic feeling. In Britain, an extensive discourse emerged about the supposed Britishness of surgical sangfroid at Waterloo, providing a narrative of national superiority in the decades of imperial expansion that followed
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Battle · Britishness · Courage · Framing (construction · Ideology · Literature · Militarism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sanity · Sociology · Stoicism · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Medical History and Innovations · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |