War at a distance : romanticism and the making of modern wartime / Mary A. Favret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Favret, Mary A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and literature.

War and society.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today. Favret examines wartime literature and art as varied as meditations on the Iliad, the history of meteorology, landscape painting in India, and popular poetry in newspapers and periodicals; she locates the embedded sense of war and dislocation in works ranging from Austen, Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Woolf, Stevens, and Sebald; and she contemplates how literature provides the public with methods for responding to violent calamities happening elsewhere. Bringing to light Romanticism's legacy in reflections on modern warfare, this book shows that war's absent presence affects home in deep and irrevocable ways.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Prelude. A Winter's Evening

PART I. Modern Wartime: Media and Affect

Chapter One. Introduction: A Sense of War

Chapter Two. Telling Time in War

Interlude. Still Winter Falls

PA RT II. Invasions

Chapter Three. War in the Air

Chapter Four. Everyday War

Interlude. A Brief History of the Meaning of War

PART III. War in the World

Chapter Five. Viewing War at a Distance

Coda. Undone

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612935800

9786612463259

9781282463257

128246325X

9781282935808

1282935801

9781400831555

1400831555

OCLC:

638860574