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Sacrifice and modern war literature : from the battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror / edited by Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Schramm.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192529107
  • 9780191844126
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56 .S237 2018
  • PN3448
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Contents:
Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- 1. Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice / 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 -- 3. The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / Christopher Herbert -- 4. The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice / Randall Fuller -- 5. Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction / Steve Attridge -- 6. Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War / Vincent Sherry -- 7. 'Freely Proffered'?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / Tim Kendall -- 8. 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / Matthew Campbell -- 9. The Penny's Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics / Ian Patterson -- 10. The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War / Mark Rawlinson -- 11. 'It is the poems you have lost': Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War / Helen Goethals -- 12. Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold War Citizen / Adam Piette -- 13. The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years Later / Philip Beidler -- 14. 'Atrocities Against His Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles / David Wheatley -- 15. Reckoning Sacrifice in 'War on Terror' Literature / Alex Houen.
Subject: 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.
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Introduction / Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- 1. Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice / 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 -- 3. The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / Christopher Herbert -- 4. The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice / Randall Fuller -- 5. Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction / Steve Attridge -- 6. Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War / Vincent Sherry -- 7. 'Freely Proffered'?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / Tim Kendall -- 8. 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / Matthew Campbell -- 9. The Penny's Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics / Ian Patterson -- 10. The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War / Mark Rawlinson -- 11. 'It is the poems you have lost': Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War / Helen Goethals -- 12. Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold War Citizen / Adam Piette -- 13. The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years Later / Philip Beidler -- 14. 'Atrocities Against His Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles / David Wheatley -- 15. Reckoning Sacrifice in 'War on Terror' Literature / 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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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