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The health of the state : modern US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964 / Jonathan Vincent.

LIBRA PS374.W35 V56 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Vincent, Jonathan (Jonathan E.), author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
War stories, American--History and criticism.
War stories, American.
War and literature--United States.
War and literature.
War in literature.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Politics and literature.
Political culture.
United States.
History.
Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Political culture--United States--20th century.
Political culture--United States--19th century.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:
xii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Summary:
"The Health of the State is a cultural history that considers how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism" -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: The Health of the State
Liberalism and War in American Political Discourse
Organizational Affect, Modern Temporality, and the Imagined Future War Narrative's Flexible Pedagogy
A Conclusion on Methodology
Paradoxical Pedagogies: Civil War Narratives and the Progressive State, 1890-1917
Preparedness Nation: World War I and the Culture of Militarization
"A Bestial Convulsion of Civilization": Race and Nation in American Modernism
A Peculiar Sovereignty: Literary Antifascism and the Liberal Warfare State
The Vacant Center: Cold War Liberalism and World War II Narrative
Refusing Sovereignty: Impossible Subjects and the Politics of Resistance
Afterword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Vincent, Jonathan (Jonathan E.), author. Health of the state
ISBN:
9780190466664
0190466669
OCLC:
967323559

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