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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Ashe
• Con la collaborazione di: Laura Ashe (Editore), Ian Patterson (Editore), Ian (Author) Patterson (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781843843818
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-381-8
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 458 g
• Serie: Essays and Studies
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata