The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature / edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Piette, Adam.

Rawlinson, Mark

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War in literature.

War in mass media.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

x, 590 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by British and US writers. Those include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children's literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Wars and their Literatures

1 Occasioning Peace: Three Poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals Goethals, Helen 11

2 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English Poetry of the Great War / Jane Potter Potter, Jane 20

3 Debatable Ground: Freedom and Constraint in British First World War Prose Fiction / Sharon Ouditt Ouditt, Sharon 31

4 One of Ours in Context: The American World War I Novel / Jennifer Haytock Haytock, Jennifer 40

5 The 'moaning of the world' 'and the 'words that bring me peace': Modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam Haslam, Sara 47

6 The Great War and the Moving Image: Cinema and Memory / Michael Paris Paris, Michael 58

7 Irish Writing of Insurrection and Civil War, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell Campbell, Matthew 64

8 The Poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain Fountain, James 75

9 'Lucid Song': The Poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton Bolton, Jonathan 85

10 American Poets of World War II / Margot Norris Norris, Margot 94

11 Writing after Nuremberg: The Judicial Imagination in the Age-of the Trauma Trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge Stonebridge, Lyndsey 101

12 The Second World War in American Fiction / John Limon Limon, John 110

13 The Second World War in British Drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart Stewart, Victoria 118

14 Holocaust Testimony: Understanding and Criticism / Bob Eaglestone Eaglestone, Bob 126

15 Holocaust Film / Barry Longford Longford, Barry 134

16 O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American Poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart Ehrhart, William D. 151

17 The Fictions of Nuclear War, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Pierce Pierce, Adam 160

18 Cold War Films / Jonathan Auerbach Auerbach, Jonathan 172

19 Britain's Small Wars: Domesticating 'Emergency' / Lee Erwin Erwin, Lee 181

20 The Disappeared and the Damned: Duplicity, Complicity and Reality in the Literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson Anderson, Kris 190

21 Vietnam Fictions / Mark A. Heberle Heberle, Mark A. 205

22 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese Poetry on the Vietnam/American War / Subarno Chattarji Chattarji, Subarno 214

23 Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' / Fran Brearton Brearton, Fran 222

24 The Literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley Begley, Jon 231

25 'An Uneven Killing Field': British Literature and the Former Yugoslavia / Andrew Hammond Hammond, Andrew 241

26 Sacrifice and the Sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen Houen, Alex 251

Part II Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures

Introduction: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures 265

27 War Memorials / David Goldie Goldie, David 269

28 Unsettled Memory: A Meditation on Contested Ground / Jane Creighton Creighton, Jane 277

29 War, Policing and Surveillance: Pat Barker and the Secret State / Jessica Meacham Meacham, Jessica 285

30 American Psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell Halliwell, Martin 294

31 Pacifists and Conscientious Objectors / Ian Patterson Patterson, Ian 304

32 The Representation of Refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure and Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore / Sissy Helff Helff, Sissy 317

33 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': Race in War Literature / Mark W. Van Wienen Wienen, Mark W. Van 26

34 A Spy Under Every Bed: Espionage and Popular Literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury Kingsbury, Celia M. 334

35 Reflections on the Enemy: From Evil Nazis to Good Germans / Petra Rau Rau, Petra 341

Part III Technology

Introduction: Technology 351

36 Camouflage and the Re-enchantment of Warfare / Mark Rawlinson Rawlinson, Mark 356

37 Warplane / David Pascoe Pascoe, David 366

38 Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner Rayner, Jonathan 380

39 Submarine Novels 'After History' / Hamish Mathison Mathison, Hamish 388

40 'An ecstasy of fumbling': Gas Warfare, 1914-18 and the Uses of Affect / Santanu Das Das, Santanu 396

41 Paul Virilio as Twentieth-Century Military Strategist: War, Cinema and the Logistics of Perception / John Armitage Armitage, John 406

42 Word Electric, So Finite: Radio, Poetry and the Séance in World War I / Jane Lewty Lewty, Jane 413

Part IV Spaces

Introduction: Spaces 427

43 The Trenches / Altyson Booth Booth, Altyson 431

44 Literature of the Camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice Vice, Sue 439

45 'That fighting was a long way off: Desert and Jungle War Poems / Peter Robinson Robinson, Peter 448

46 Cityscape: The Bombed City in the Second World War / Leo Mellor Mellor, Leo 456

47 The Eight-week College of the Age of Extremes: The Barracks and the Training Ground / Glyn Salton-Cox Salton-Cox, Glyn 465

Part V Genres

Introduction: Genres 475

48 Contemporary War Drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boil Boil, Julia 479

49 Nuclear War in Science Fiction / David Seed Seed, David 490

50 The Children's War / Katie Trumpener Trumpener, Katie 498

51 The Troubles with the Thriller: Northern Ireland, Political Violence and the Peace Process / Aaron Kelly Kelly, Aaron 508

52 Fantasies of Complicity in the Second World War / R. W. Maslen Maslen, R. W. 516

53 Visualising the Transformations of War: War and Art in the Twentieth Century / Roger Tolson Tolson, Roger 524

54 Twentieth-Century Spy Fiction / James Purdon Purdon, James 536

55 'Play Up and Play the Game!': The Narrative of War Games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart MacCallum-Stewart, Esther 544

56 War Correspondence / Kate McLaughlin McLaughlin, Kate 553

57 Thinking War / Nick Mansfield Mansfield, Nick 562.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

0748638741

OCLC:

766317517

Publisher Number:

99948275783