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Boys, Battleships, Books: the Cult of the Navy in US Juvenile Fiction, 1898–1919
Abstract
American juvenile military fiction between the Spanish-American and First World wars reflects an age swept up in imperialist aspiration and rapid technological innovation. Its defining theme was the rise of the navy as a world-class fighting force.2 The technology that enabled this projection of American power across the seas was also, paradoxically, a source of anxiety. While sublimated into fascination with technology itself, anxiety remains a text beneath every page, no matter how much steam, electricity and machinery are praised.3 American ships and men now criss-crossed the globe; her technological prowess propelled her to the forefront of nations. She was powerful — yet vulnerable — as never before.
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Millions were killed and maimed in the senseless brutality of the First World War, but once the armistice was signed the realities were cleansed of their horror by the nature of the burial and commemoration of the dead. In the interwar period, war monuments and cemeteries provided the public with places of worship and martyrs for the civic religion of nationalism. The cult of the fallen soldier blossomed in Germany and other European countries, and people seemed to build war into their lives as a necessary and glorious event - a proof of manhood and loyalty to the flag. Ultimately there was even a process of trivialization, with light comedies, war toys, and battlefield tourism becoming popular. Tracing wartime experience from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam, Professor Mosse's chilling study explores why mankind has drawn the sting of death from modern war and transformed it into an acceptable, even sacred, event.
Fighting in Cuban Waters
- Edward Stratemeyer Lothrop
- Shepard Lee
The Boy Allies with the Terror of the Seas
- Robert L Drake
The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer
- Wilbur Lawton
The American Steel Navy
- John D Alden
The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service (Akron: Saalfield, 1911)
- Frank Gee Patchin
The Foreigner On American views towards the Japanese in this period in light of the growing naval rivalry
- Macdonald
The Wonder of War at Sea
- Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The Battleship Boys: First Step Upward (Akron: Saalfield
- Frank Gee Patchin
The Dreadnought Boys on a Submarine
- Wilbur Lawton
- W Lawton
The Boy Allies in the Baltic
- Robert L Drake
- RL Drake
The Battleship Boys with the Adriatic Chasers
- Frank Gee Patchin
A good example is found in Brooks’s preface to In Defence of the Flag, p. vi: Tf also this book, as did the opening volume of the series, “With Lawson and Roberts”, shall be found to have used the cordial relations between England and America to equal advantage
- JF MacDonald
The Dark Mirror: War Ethos in Juvenile Fiction
- PA Sonderbergh
Voices Prophesying War
- I F Clarke
- IF Clarke
On American views towards the Japanese in this period in light of the growing naval rivalry, see James R. Reckner, Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet
- Macdonald
- JR Reckner