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"This volume builds on the growing scholarly interest in war within literary studies as well as the burgeoning awareness of the importance of literary perspectives on warfare. The essays are intended both to serve as a guide for researchers and students and to advance scholarship in the field"--
List of contents
Part I. Origins and Theories: 1. War and classical Athens Edith Foster; 2. War and Chinese culture Huiwen Helen Zhang and Haun Saussy; 3. War and romantic thought Wolf Kittler; 4. War and critical theory Max Pensky; 5. War and French theory Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 6. War and media studies Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 7. War and postcolonial thought Santanu Das; Part II. Foundational Concepts: 8. War and language Nil Santiáñez; 9. War and modernist aesthetics Paul Sheehan; 10. War and historicity Elizabeth Krimmer; 11. War and sensation Sarah Cole; 12. War and civilians Mark Rawlinson; 13. War and trauma Neil Ramsey and Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 14. War and religion Peter Madsen; 15. War and gender Margot Norris; Part III. Emerging Concepts: 16. War and drones Debjani Ganguly; 17. War and humanitarianism Eleni Coundouriotis; 18. War and capitalism Neil Ramsey; 19. War and revolution Jan Mieszkowski; 20. War and biopolitics Arne de Boever; 21. War and nuclear criticism Adam Piette; 22. War and the personality of power Brian Massumi.
About the author
Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of two monographs, Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (2015), and of Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (2023). He edits the book series Prisms: Humanities and War.Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is author of two monographs, The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (2011) and Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Summary
This volume builds on the growing scholarly interest in war within literary studies as well as the burgeoning awareness of the importance of literary perspectives on warfare. The essays are intended both to serve as a guide for researchers and students and to advance scholarship in the field.
Foreword
This is the first volume to provide a systematic overview of the core concepts in contemporary scholarship of war literature.
