Sacrifice and modern war literature : from the battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror /
Sacrifice and modern war literature : from the battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror /
edited by Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Schramm.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 1. Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice / 3. The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / 4. The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice / 5. Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction / 6. Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War / 7. 'Freely Proffered'?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / 8. 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / 9. The Penny's Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics / 10. The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War / 11. 'It is the poems you have lost': Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War / 12. Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold War Citizen / 13. The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years Later / 14. 'Atrocities Against His Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles / 15. Reckoning Sacrifice in 'War on Terror' Literature / Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Philip Shaw 2. 'I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy': The Crimean War and the 'Inspiration' of (Self-) Sacrifice in mid-Victorian Fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Christopher Herbert -- Randall Fuller -- Steve Attridge -- Vincent Sherry -- Tim Kendall -- Matthew Campbell -- Ian Patterson -- Mark Rawlinson -- Helen Goethals -- Adam Piette -- Philip Beidler -- David Wheatley -- Alex Houen.
This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice that the contributors discuss.
9780192529107 9780191844126
War in literature.
War stories--History and criticism.
Sacrifice in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S237 2018 PN3448
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / 1. Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice / 3. The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / 4. The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice / 5. Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction / 6. Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War / 7. 'Freely Proffered'?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / 8. 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / 9. The Penny's Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics / 10. The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War / 11. 'It is the poems you have lost': Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War / 12. Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold War Citizen / 13. The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years Later / 14. 'Atrocities Against His Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles / 15. Reckoning Sacrifice in 'War on Terror' Literature / Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Philip Shaw 2. 'I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy': The Crimean War and the 'Inspiration' of (Self-) Sacrifice in mid-Victorian Fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Christopher Herbert -- Randall Fuller -- Steve Attridge -- Vincent Sherry -- Tim Kendall -- Matthew Campbell -- Ian Patterson -- Mark Rawlinson -- Helen Goethals -- Adam Piette -- Philip Beidler -- David Wheatley -- Alex Houen.
This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice that the contributors discuss.
9780192529107 9780191844126
War in literature.
War stories--History and criticism.
Sacrifice in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S237 2018 PN3448