Visions of war in France
Subtitle: fiction, art, ideology
By: Catharine Savage Brosman.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: French fiction -- History and criticism.; War in literature.
Description: "Catharine Savage Brosman examines literary depictions of war and wartime in France from the early nineteenth century - the Napoleonic era - through World War II and its aftermath.

Visions of War in France examines - in a historical, cultural, and ideological context - the development of nationalism and evolving views on warfare, how war has been treated by authors and artists in France since 1800, and especially the distinctive ways of grappling with the physical, psychological, and philosophical issues in the war-novel genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and index.