Narratives of War

Imogen Peck
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This chapter explores the ways in which individuals narrated, structured, and recalled their own wartime experiences, and those of their family. The first section analyses the military memoirs of two Royalist commanders, Sir Hugh Cholmley and Sir Richard Grenville. The second and third sections draw on the war stories contained in the petitions of maimed Parliamentarian soldiers and war widows. It argues that, in all three cases, subjects were principally concerned with curating an account of their wartime experiences that would reconcile the events of the past with their present identity, a task that combined partial, partisan remembering with a healthy dose of selective amnesia. It also considers the extent to which individual accounts were coloured by public memory, and demonstrates that though historians often make a conceptual distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ recollection, the boundary between these two categories was highly porous.
战争叙事
本章探讨了个人叙述、组织和回忆他们自己和家人的战争经历的方式。第一部分分析了两位保皇党指挥官休·乔姆利爵士和理查德·格伦维尔爵士的军事回忆录。第二节和第三节取材于伤残的国会士兵和战争寡妇的请愿书中所载的战争故事。它认为,在这三个案例中,研究对象主要关注的是如何对他们的战时经历进行描述,从而使过去的事件与他们现在的身份相协调,这是一项将局部、党派记忆与健康剂量的选择性健忘症结合起来的任务。它还考虑了个人叙述在多大程度上受到了公众记忆的影响,并表明尽管历史学家经常在“公共”和“私人”回忆之间做出概念上的区分,但这两个类别之间的界限是非常模糊的。
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