War and Literature

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

List of contents

Preface
Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century - Susanna A. Throop
Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle - Katie Louise Walter
'Is This War?': British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War - James Purdon
Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England - Catherine A M Clarke
'The Reader myghte lamente': the sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play - Joanna Bellis
Shakespeare's Casus Belly... - Andrew Zurcher
Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor' of Elizabeth Murray Inman - Carol Watts
Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville - Tom F. Wright
A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead - Mary A. Favret
The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an Airman' - Rachel Galvin
Does Tolstoy's War and Peace make modern war literature redundant? - Mark Rawlinson

About the author

Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson

Product details

• Authors: Laura Ashe
• Assisted by: Laura Ashe (Editor), Ian Patterson (Editor), Ian (Author) Patterson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781843843818
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-381-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies