This thesis explores the representation of negative and subversive aspects of the Royal Navy and its seamen during the French Wars, 1793-1815, in contemporary print culture. Visual analysis, supported by archival research, is used to show that evasion and exaggeration were key in the representation of such subjects. The figure of Jack Tar (the common seaman) and the facets of his service referenced in works on paper are investigated as constructs. It is argued that such historical documents confirmed and perpetuated misconceptions informed by dominant expectations, values and concerns. Such depictions, often satirical, are indicative of broader material and ideological contexts. Issues collectively and individually salient for Britons’ and ...
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Britain grew from an island nation with limited colo...
The ‘long’ eighteenth-century British Navy is the subject of a vast and growing secondary literature...
The late eighteenth century witnessed dramatic changes in the social, economic, and political fabric...
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the nat...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the place occupied by the royal navy in...
My dissertation traces the development of the Jolly Jack Tar, a widespread image of the common Briti...
This dissertation investigates the gradual emergence of the 'young hero' as a new figure in maritime...
This is a creative thesis project focusing on leadership in the British Royal Navy during the Napole...
Between 1688 and 1742, the Royal Navy emerged as the largest navy in Europe. New bases, increasing l...
No detailed study of the causes of desertion, the scale of the problem, or its effects on naval oper...
This thesis presents an analysis of the 1797 fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore based on an app...
This thesis focuses on the foreign seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutiona...
This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and ...
This is the author accepted manuscript.During the early decades of the eighteenth century the first ...
The aim of this paper is to examine the conduct of war at sea at the time of Napoleon and to explore...
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Britain grew from an island nation with limited colo...
The ‘long’ eighteenth-century British Navy is the subject of a vast and growing secondary literature...
The late eighteenth century witnessed dramatic changes in the social, economic, and political fabric...
In eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, sailors occupied a paradoxical place in the nat...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis examines the place occupied by the royal navy in...
My dissertation traces the development of the Jolly Jack Tar, a widespread image of the common Briti...
This dissertation investigates the gradual emergence of the 'young hero' as a new figure in maritime...
This is a creative thesis project focusing on leadership in the British Royal Navy during the Napole...
Between 1688 and 1742, the Royal Navy emerged as the largest navy in Europe. New bases, increasing l...
No detailed study of the causes of desertion, the scale of the problem, or its effects on naval oper...
This thesis presents an analysis of the 1797 fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore based on an app...
This thesis focuses on the foreign seamen who served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutiona...
This thesis argues that British naval officers provide a useful category of analysis for social and ...
This is the author accepted manuscript.During the early decades of the eighteenth century the first ...
The aim of this paper is to examine the conduct of war at sea at the time of Napoleon and to explore...
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, Britain grew from an island nation with limited colo...
The ‘long’ eighteenth-century British Navy is the subject of a vast and growing secondary literature...
The late eighteenth century witnessed dramatic changes in the social, economic, and political fabric...