2 options
The language of war : literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II / James Dawes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawes, James, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- War in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English language--Social aspects--United States.
- English language.
- Language and culture--United States--History.
- Language and culture.
- World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Violence--United States--Historiography.
- Violence.
- Violence in literature.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
- United States.
- United States--History, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, Dawes develops two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself?.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Language and Violence: The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory
- Chapter One. Counting on the Battlefield: Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War
- Chapter Two. Care and Creation: The Anglo-American Modernists
- Chapter Three. Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe: Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant
- Chapter Four. Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms: Literature and Theory between the Wars
- Chapter Five. Language, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology
- Chapter Six. Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674030268
- 0674030265
- OCLC:
- 456250326
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.