The Crimean War in the British Imagination (2009)
The Crimean War not only gave us the cardigan, the balaclava, the Crimean beard and a generation of girls named Alma, it also unleashed considerable artistic and literary creativity. From Tennyson’s epic poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, to Lady Butler’s The Roll Call, the words and images created in response to this conflict have occupied an enduring place in the British imagination. So it is perhaps puzzling that this book, part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series, is the first to take the cultural impact of the war as its main theme.