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Mothers and Sons Mothers and Sons
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4 Mothers and Sons in the Time of Napoleonic War
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Published:January 2018
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Abstract
What did it feel like to be homesick in the early 1800s? This chapter tightens the lens and delves into the sensorial and affective world of those Napoleonic soldiers who suffered from nostalgia on the battlefield. Drawing from a rich collection of letters and diaries, it reconstructs their own narratives of illness in order to get as close as possible to a historical ethnography of people’s affective lives at the time. In doing so, it sheds light on the gender norms and intense family bonds that underpinned the nostalgia diagnosis. At a time when psychiatry was still in its infancy, and the notion of psychological trauma was as yet unimaginable, French military physicians already developed a sophisticated understanding of soldiers’ psychological breakdown, effectively formulating a first systematic conception of war neuroses. Paradoxically, it was the experience of demobilization after Waterloo that pushed many veterans to look upon their years in the army with a certain regret—with a comforting longing for the past that we have called “nostalgia” ever since.
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