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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
Available from offsite location
- 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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