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Civilizing war : imperial politics and the poetics of national rupture / Nasser Mufti.
Van Pelt Library PR830.W37 M84 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mufti, Nasser, author.
- Series:
- FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 28.
- FlashPoints ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Civil war in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Colonies.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Civilization.
- Great Britain.
- British colonies.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Civility
- A glimpse of social war
- A nexus of fratricide
- The long civil war
- Civilizing mission
- Civil war, the highest stage of civilization
- Civil war, the lowest stage of civilization
- Incivility
- A bend in the historical novel
- Postcolonial interregnum
- Coda: Global civil war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810136038
- 0810136031
- 9780810136021
- 0810136023
- OCLC:
- 975486928
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