Conflict, nationhood and corporeality in modern literature
Subtitle: bodies-at-war
By: edited by Petra Rau
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780230231528
Subjects: English literature; Human body in literature; War in literature; History and criticism; War and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: between absence and ubiquity: on the meanings of the body-at-war / Petra Rau; title: "Isn't this worth fighting for?" World War I and the (ab)uses of the pastoral tradition / Christine Berberich; title: Violence and the pacifist body in Vernon Lee's The ballet of the nations / Patricia Pulham; title: Incommensurate histories: the remaindered Irish bodies of the Great War / Eugene McNulty; title: "Soft-skinned vehicle': reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin's The invasion handbook / Mark Rawlinson; title: "A stiff is still a stiff in this country": the problem of murder in wartime / Gill Plain; title: Masculinity, masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Miller's On the side of the angels / Victoria Stewart; title: "One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare": the fascinating fascist corpus in contemporary British fiction / Petra Rau; title: Resentments: the politics and pathologies of war writing / Marina Mackay; title: "The dangerous edge of things": geopolitical bodies and Cold War fiction / Richard Robinson.