Holly Furneaux is a Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of Dickens in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and editor of John Forster's Life of Dickens (Sterling, 2011). Research for Military Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.

• Introduction 1: 'The company of gentlemen': Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling and Eighteenth-Century Traditions 2: Princes of War and of Peace: Secular and Spiritual Redemption in Dickens and Kingsley 3: Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield Adoption 4: 'Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son': Family Feeling in the Crimea 5: Sharing the Stuff of War: Soldier Art, Textiles and Tactility 6: Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving Afterword: The Ballad of the Boy Captain Bibliography Index

Holly Furneaux is a Reader in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (Oxford University Press, 2009). She is also co-editor, with Sally Ledger, of Dickens in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and editor of John Forster's Life of Dickens (Sterling, 2011). Research for Military Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.

• Introduction 1: 'The company of gentlemen': Thackeray's Military Men of Feeling and Eighteenth-Century Traditions 2: Princes of War and of Peace: Secular and Spiritual Redemption in Dickens and Kingsley 3: Children of the Regiment: Narratives of Battlefield Adoption 4: 'Our poor Colonel loved him as if he had been his own son': Family Feeling in the Crimea 5: Sharing the Stuff of War: Soldier Art, Textiles and Tactility 6: Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving Afterword: The Ballad of the Boy Captain Bibliography Index