@inbook{a93ee41055be4534b7711f5ef1973c17,
title = "The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars",
keywords = "Austen's fiction therefore reflects a profoundly ambivalent view of the military, began to change after victories of the Peninsular War and emergence of Wellington as a national hero, Such a view conditions Austen's representation of the military in Pride and Prejudice Lydia Bennet swoons at the prospective {"}glories of the camp{"} at Brighton, The Army, the Navy, and the Napoleonic Wars, This zone of interaction, as Austen's fiction reveals, had gendered and sexual meanings, Thus Wickham confides in Elizabeth Bennet that it was {"}the prospect of constant society, and good society{"} that attracted him to the militia",
author = "Gillian Russell",
year = "2009",
month = mar,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1002/9781444305968.ch22",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781405149099",
pages = "261--271",
booktitle = "A Companion to Jane Austen",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons",
}