Holly Furneaux is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. 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 her new book, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.

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• 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 ; Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving ; Bibliography

Holly Furneaux is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. 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 her new book, Military Men of Feeling: Emotion Touch and Masculinity, was supported by an AHRC Fellowship in partnership with the National Army Museum.

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• 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 ; Reparative Soldiering and its Limits: Cultures of Male Care-Giving ; Bibliography