War and American literature / edited by Jennifer Haytock.
"This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Li...
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge themes in American literature and culture.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge themes in American literature and culture.
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| Physical Description: | xx, 374 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Aspects of war in American literature. War and morality / Ty Hawkins
- Propaganda for war from the Revolution to the Vietnam War / Nicholas J. Cull
- Representing soldiers / Jennifer Haytock
- Bodies, injury, medicine / Michael Zeitlin
- Veterans, trauma, afterwar / Philip Beidler
- Mourning, elegy, memorialization from the CIvil War to Vietnam / Steven Trout
- On antiwar literature / Lawrence Rosenwald
- Cultural moments and the American literary imaginary. Liberty, freedom, independence, and war / James J. Gigantino II
- Indians, defeat, persistence, and resistance / Tammy Wahpeconiah
- Civil War literature and memory / Sarah E. Gardner
- African American literature, citizenship, and war, 1863-1932 / Davis Davis
- World War I and cultural change in America / Pearl James
- On the home fronts of two world wars / Karsten Piep
- Patriotism, nationalism, globalism / Jonathan Vincent
- The "good war" script / Diederik Oostdijk
- The Vietnam War and its legacy / Mark A. Heberle
- The forever wars / Stacey Peebles
- New lines of inquiry. War and queerness / Eric Keenaghan
- War and disability studies / John M. Kinder
- War and ecocriticism / Laura Wright
- War and whiteness / Roger Luckhurst
- War and posthumanism / Tim Blackmore.