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Playing at Soldiers: B ritish Loyalism and Juvenile Identities during the N apoleonic W ars
Author(s) -
Gleadle Kathryn
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12216
Subject(s) - neighbourhood (mathematics) , juvenile , constitution , politics , identity (music) , gender studies , reproduction , sociology , political science , law , aesthetics , art , biology , ecology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This article focuses on B ritish children's play as a medium through which to examine the construction of loyalist identities during the F rench Revolutionary and N apoleonic W ars. The display of juvenile patriotic identities was a significant feature of the neighbourhood political cultures formed in response to the invasion threat. Turning the spotlight on the ‘cultural presence of children’ demonstrates the extent to which the young were not simply passive recipients of socialisation processes, but could be significant agents in the constitution and reproduction of cultures themselves.