Martin - Napoleonic Friendship Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France

BECOMING MODERN

New Nineteenth-Century Studies

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Sarah Way Sherman, Department of English, University of New Hampshire Janet Aikins Yount, Department of English, University of New Hampshire Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England Janet Polasky, Department of History, University of New Hampshire

This book series maps the complexity of historical change and assesses the formation of ideas, movements, and institutions crucial to our own time by publishing books that examine the emergence of modernity in North America and Europe. Set primarily but not exclusively in the nineteenth century, the series shifts attention from modernitys twentieth-century forms to its earlier moments of uncertain and often disputed construction. Seeking books of interest to scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, it thereby encourages the expansion of nineteenth-century studies and the exploration of more global patterns of development.

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Brian Joseph Martin, Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France

Andrew Taylor, Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Identity

Elizabeth A. Fay, Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

Katherine Joslin, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

Daneen Wardrop, Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing

Ronald D. LeBlanc, Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction

Barbara Penner, Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America

Christine Levecq, Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 17701850

Jennifer J. Popiel, Rousseaus Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France

Paula Young Lee, editor, Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse

Duncan Faherty, Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 17761858

Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 17801880

Scott Molloy, Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line

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Portions of this book have been previously published and are reprinted here by permission of the copyright holders:

Brian Martin, Military Bedfellows and Napoleonic Mentors: Intimacy and Friendship in the Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne. Reprinted with permission from Romanic Review 101.2 (May 2010). 2010 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Brian Martin, From Balzac to Iraq: Soldiers, Veterans, and Military Adaptation, The Comparatist 30 (May 2006): 6880.

Brian Martin, Corporal Affairs: French Military Fiction from Zola to Proust, in The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature, and the Arts, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrfe (Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2005), 10322. Published with the permission of Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

My heart was as empty as a lover who has lost the object of his passion But now I am like a lover who has rediscovered his desire; I offer my body to support His Majesty. Long live the Emperor!

SOLDIER JEAN BORDENAVE
(1815)

I set out to look for one of my friends, the one with whom I was most intimately linked, the one with whom I had never counted debts; our purses were one and the same.

SERGEANT FRANOIS BOURGOGNE
(1835)

This fraternity of peril had strengthened friendship for some and created new friendships for others. Friendship that forms on the field of battle is one of lasting duration.

CAPTAIN ELZAR BLAZE
(1837)

I loved him, my brave comrade, and would not leave him to the enemy.

CAPTAIN JEAN-ROCH COIGNET
(1851)