Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature [electronic resource] : Bodies-at-War /
Rau, P.editor.
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: between absence and ubiquity: on the meanings of the body-at-war / Petra Rau -- "Isn't this worth fighting for?" World War I and the (ab)uses of the pastoral tradition / Christine Berberich -- Violence and the pacifist body in Vernon Lee's The ballet of the nations / Patricia Pulham -- Incommensurate histories: the remaindered Irish bodies of the Great War / Eugene McNulty -- "Soft-skinned vehicle': reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin's The invasion handbook / Mark Rawlinson -- "A stiff is still a stiff in this country": the problem of murder in wartime / Gill Plain -- Masculinity, masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Miller's On the side of the angels / Victoria Stewart -- "One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare": the fascinating fascist corpus in contemporary British fiction / Petra Rau -- Resentments: the politics and pathologies of war writing / Marina Mackay -- "The dangerous edge of things": geopolitical bodies and Cold War fiction / Richard Robinson.
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Civilization-History.
Sociology.
British literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural History.
Sociology, general.
British and Irish Literature.