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Author:   Jennifer Haytock (State University College, Brockport, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9781108496803

ISBN 10:   1108496806
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   04 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Jennifer Haytock; Part I. Aspects of War in American Literature: 1. War and morality Ty Hawkins; 2. Propaganda for war from the revolution to the Vietnam war Nicholas J. Cull; 3. Representing soldiers Jennifer Haytock; 4. Bodies, injury, medicine Michael Zeitlin; 5. Veterans, trauma, afterwar Philip Beidler; 6. Mourning, elegy, memorialization from the Civil war to Vietnam Steven Trout; 7. On antiwar literature Lawrence Rosenwald; Part II. Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination: 8. Liberty, freedom, independence, and war James J. Gigantino II; 9. Indians, defeat, persistence, and resistance Tammy Wahpeconiah; 10. Civil war literature and memory Sarah E. Gardner; 11. African American literature, citizenship, and war, 1863-1932 David Davis; 12. World war I and cultural change in America Pearl James; 13. On the home fronts of two world wars Karsten Piep; 14. Patriotism, nationalism, globalism Jonathan Vincent; 15. The 'good war' script Diederik Oostdijk; 16. The Vietnam war and its legacy Mark A. Heberle; 17. The forever wars Stacey Peebles; Part III. New Lines of Inquiry: 18. War and queerness Eric Keenaghan; 19. War and disability studies John M. Kinder; 20. War and ecocriticism Laura Wright; 21. War and whiteness Roger Luckhurst; 22. War and posthumanism Tim Blackmore.

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... a diverse volume ... It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement 'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice Connect

… a diverse volume … It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement 'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice Connect

... a diverse volume ... It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Jennifer Haytock is professor of English at SUNY Brockport. She has published At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003) and the Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018) as well as works on twentieth-century American women writers. She is Brockport's 2019 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

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