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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780192529107 9780191844126 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>War in literature.<br/>War stories--History and criticism.<br/>Sacrifice in literature.<br/>Fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .S237 2018 PN3448