title: The Afterlife of Thomas Campbell and ‘The Soldier’s Dream’ in the Crimean War
abstract: Studies of Crimean War poetry tend to focus on Alfred Tennyson’s celebrated war poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (1854), a civilian poetic rewriting of <em>The Times</em>’s despatches. While recent scholarship has highlighted the impact of modern forms of reportage on artistic representations of the Crimean War, this article will argue that the two-year military campaign waged at a long distance was not only a media war but also a literary one, during which civilians drew on established fo
journal: 19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century