The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson, Adam Piette, Mark Rawlinson

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781474413947
• eBook ISBN: 9780748653911
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers.

Table of contents

• COVER
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION: THE WARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• Part I: Wars and their Literatures
• 1 OCCASIONING PEACE: THREE POEMS OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR
• 2 ‘THE ESSENTIALLY MODERN ATTITUDE TOWARD WAR’: ENGLISH POETRY OF THE GREAT WAR
• 3 DEBATABLE GROUND: FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT IN BRITISH FIRST WORLD WAR PROSE FICTION
• 4 ONE OF OURS IN CONTEXT: THE AMERICAN WORLD WAR I NOVEL
• 5 THE ‘MOANING OF THE WORLD’ AND THE ‘WORDS THAT BRING ME PEACE’: MODERNISM AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
• 6 THE GREAT WAR AND THE MOVING IMAGE: CINEMA AND MEMORY
• 7 IRISH WRITING OF INSURRECTION AND CIVIL WAR, 1916–39
• 8 THE POETRY OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• 9 ‘LUCID SONG’: THE POETRY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• 10 AMERICAN POETS OF WORLD WAR II
• 11 WRITING AFTER NUREMBERG: THE JUDICIAL IMAGINATION IN THE AGE OF THE TRAUMA TRIAL
• 12 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN AMERICAN FICTION
• 13 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN BRITISH DRAMA SINCE 1968
• 14 HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY: UNDERSTANDING AND CRITICISM
• 15 HOLOCAUST FILM
• 16 O, DO NOT DREAM OF PEACE: AMERICAN POETRY OF THE KOREAN WAR
• 17 THE FICTIONS OF NUCLEAR WAR, FROM HIROSHIMA TO VIETNAM
• 18 COLD WAR FILMS
• 19 BRITAIN’S SMALL WARS: DOMESTICATING ‘EMERGENCY’
• 20 THE DISAPPEARED AND THEDAMNED: DUPLICITY, COMPLICITY AND REALITY IN THE LITERATURE OF THE PAX AMERICANA
• 21 VIETNAM FICTIONS
• 22 ‘WILL THERE BE PEACE AGAIN?’: AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE POETRY ON THE VIETNAM/AMERICAN WAR
• 23 POETRY AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND ‘TROUBLES’
• 24 THE LITERATURE OF THE FALKLANDS/MALVINAS WAR
• 25 ‘AN UNEVEN KILLING FIELD’: BRITISH LITERATURE AND THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
• 26 SACRIFICE AND THE SUBLIME SINCE 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
• Part II: Bodies, Behaviour, Cultures
• INTRODUCTION: BODIES, BEHAVIOUR, CULTURES
• 27 WAR MEMORIALS
• 28 UNSETTLED MEMORY: AMEDITATION ON CONTESTED GROUND
• 29 WAR, POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE: PAT BARKER AND THE SECRET STATE
• 30 AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY, WORLD WAR II AND THE KOREAN WAR
• 31 PACIFISTS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
• 32 THE REPRESENTATION OF REFUGEES IN ARTHUR KOESTLER’S ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE AND CARYL PHILLIPS’S A DISTANT SHORE
• 33 ‘THESE ROOMS / RUN INTO EACH OTHER LIKE TUNNELS / LEADING TO THE UNDERWORLD’: RACE IN WAR LITERATURE
• 34 A SPY UNDER EVERY BED: ESPIONAGE AND POPULAR LITERATURE FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
• 35 REFLECTIONS ON THE ENEMY: FROM EVIL NAZIS TO GOOD GERMANS
• Part III: Technology
• INTRODUCTION: TECHNOLOGY
• 36 CAMOUFLAGE AND THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF WARFARE
• 37 WARPLANE
• 38 MONSARRAT’S CORVETTES AND THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
• 39 SUBMARINE NOVELS ‘AFTER HISTORY’
• 40 ‘AN ECSTASY OF FUMBLING’: GAS WARFARE, 1914–18 AND THE USES OF AFFECT
• 41 PAUL VIRILIO AS TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY STRATEGIST: WAR, CINEMA AND THE LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION
• 42 WORD ELECTRIC, SO FINITE: RADIO, POETRY AND THE SÉANCE IN WORLD WAR I
• Part IV: Spaces
• INTRODUCTION: SPACES
• 43 THE TRENCHES
• 44 LITERATURE OF THE CAMPS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• 45 ‘THAT FIGHTING WAS A LONG WAY OFF ’: DESERT AND JUNGLE WAR POEMS
• 46 CITYSCAPE: THE BOMBED CITY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• 47 THE EIGHT-WEEK COLLEGE OF THE AGE OF EXTREMES: THE BARRACKS AND THE TRAINING GROUND
• Part V: Genres
• INTRODUCTION: GENRES
• 48 CONTEMPORARY WAR DRAMA: CARYL CHURCHILL
• 49 NUCLEAR WAR IN SCIENCE FICTION
• 50 THE CHILDREN’S WAR
• 51 THE TROUBLES WITH THE THRILLER: NORTHERN IRELAND, POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND THE PEACE PROCESS
• 52 FANTASIES OF COMPLICITY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• 53 VISUALISING THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF WAR: WAR AND ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• 54 TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPY FICTION
• 55 ‘PLAY UP AND PLAY THE GAME!’: THE NARRATIVE OF WAR GAMES
• 56 WAR CORRESPONDENCE
• 57 THINKING WAR
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX