id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bjjr2nltkrdxvcbfy7t3t6mka4 Tim Fulford Sighing for a Soldier: Jane Austen and Military Pride and Prejudice 2002 26 .pdf application/pdf 10244 579 67 upon their relationship to the social and political issues of a nation that, in the years during which Austen was writing, was almost continually at war with revolutionary France. military spectacles ever exhibited in this country."5 The spectators saw brightly dressed men, commanded by dukes, exercising (for some of the time), but they also saw the kind of aristocratic self-indulgence that was normally hidden behind the back and forth, losing soldiers without ever coming into a decisive battle: "0, the grand old Duke 0' York, / He had ten thousand men; / He marched them up the hill my boys, / Then and military immorality home to the shires in the form of soldiers who, after the vast expansion of army and militia, were Austen shows, in effect, that political and social circumstances maketh the man (and woman): Wickham is not just a ./cache/work_bjjr2nltkrdxvcbfy7t3t6mka4.pdf ./txt/work_bjjr2nltkrdxvcbfy7t3t6mka4.txt