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Blackadder, E. S.

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“…Next day I dined, but staid too long in company.' 75 Yet negotiating masculinity in accordance to the demands of various masculine spatial and institutional settings was both taxing and fluid, as Blackadder showed in 1728, when, after reading through his diary, he conceded that part of the reason he was so damning of his comrades was his own stiff, unsociable nature. 76 In the introduction to Blackadder's diary, Crichton observes: 'We know how battles have been lost or won, where valiant men have fought and fallen; but the religious annals of a soldier's life, the combats he sustains with enemies within himself, and the victories to be won over the corruptions of his own heart, are of comparatively rare occurrence.'…”

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Subjective Experience and Military Masculinity at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688‐1714

Brittan¹

2017

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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No other institution illustrates the tensions between competing normative ideals and discursive behaviours more than the army. At the turn of the eighteenth century the British military had a reputation for being particularly untrustworthy, licentious, immoral and drunk. Using autobiographical sources and focusing on subjective experience in relation to normative expectations, this article questions such stereotypes by looking at four men in the middle ranks of the army officer corps. The attempt of these four officers to understand, perform and negotiate competing norms illustrates the tension that often existed between the expectations of a variety of masculine discourses.

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confidence: 99%