Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era: Charlotte Yonge's Models of Manliness (review)

Considering Yonge's fiction alongside mid-century attitudes toward the military (including ideas about men's fashion and facial hair), Walton demonstrates that Yonge combined "a narrative of knightly warfare" with an "evolving domestic ethos," producing a model of "...

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Published in:Victorian Studies 2011, Vol.53 (4), p.761-763
Main Author: Hill, Georgina O'Brien
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Attitudes
Children
Families & family life
Fathers
Fiction
Masculinity
Missionaries
Novels
Parents & parenting
Religious missions
Victorian period
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Summary:Considering Yonge's fiction alongside mid-century attitudes toward the military (including ideas about men's fashion and facial hair), Walton demonstrates that Yonge combined "a narrative of knightly warfare" with an "evolving domestic ethos," producing a model of "happy warriors" grounded by the values of domesticity (24). [...] successful fathers are proactive, engaged in the lives of their children and their community, guides rather than authoritarian figures.
ISSN:0042-5222
1527-2052
DOI:10.2979/victorianstudies.53.4.761