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This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds tothe body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World WarI to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Between Absence and Ubiquity ā on the Meanings of the Body-at-War
- 1 āIsnāt This Worth Fighting For?ā The First World War and the (Ab)Uses of the Pastoral Tradition
- 2 Violence and the Pacifist Body in Vernon Leeās The Ballet of the Nations
- 3 Incommensurate Histories: the Remaindered Irish Bodies of the Great War
- 4 āSoft-skinned Vehicleā: Reading the Second World War in Tom Paulinās The Invasion Handbook
- 5 āA stiff is still a stiff in this countryā: the Problem of Murder in Wartime
- 6 Masculinity, Masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Millerās On the Side of the Angels
- 7 āOne step closer to the dreamers of the nightmareā: the Fascinating Fascist Corpus in Contemporary British Fiction
- 8 āResentmentsā: the Politics and Pathologies of War Writing
- 9 āThe dangerous edge of thingsā: Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War Fiction
- Index