The Routledge introduction to American war literature / Jennifer Haytock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haytock, Jennifer Anne, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge introductions to American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

War and literature--United States.

War and literature.

War in literature.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

American war literature

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex: more than just a subject for story-telling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the specificity of how American literature deals with the emotional, intellectual, social, political, and economic contradictions that evolve into and out of war. Raising questions about how American ideals of independence and gender affect representations of war while also considering how specifically American experiences of race and class interweave with representations of combat, this book is a rich and coherent introduction to these texts and critical debates.

Contents:

1 Literature of the American Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War p. 17

2 Literature of the American Civil War p. 42

3 Literature of World War I p. 70

4 Literature of World War II p. 94

5 Literature of the wars in Korea and Viet Nam p. 123

6 Literature of the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan p. 148.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1138917575

9781138917576

OCLC:

1007927547