Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars

  Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars, Everyday life in the English country house, Female Masculinity Read the book# 2 & 3; Wollstonecraft Article if you need • Answer any two questions from the below: • How did war draw all ranks of people into the nation? What were women's roles in the war effort? How can we account for the 'glabour of a red coat'? What interactions did the Bennets have with war and the military? • How was life in the country house organized? How would you characterize the relations between masters and servants, gentry and middling sort, and both and the laboring poor? How do servants appear in the novels? • How did eighteenth century women define themselves? What role did things, places and social networks play in their estimation of value, of themselves and of others? How do gender and sexuality become instrumentalized in the novels and in experience?