The language of war
Subtitle: literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II
By: James Dawes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; War in literature; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Literature and the war; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English language -- Social aspects -- United States; Language and culture -- United States -- History; Violence -- United States -- Historiography; Violence in literature; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war; United States -- History, Military -- Historiography
Description: "The Language of War examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself?

Authors and texts of central importance in this far-reaching study range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner, the Geneva Conventions, and contemporary American organizational sociology and language theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Language and Violence:; title: The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory I; title: I Counting on the Battlefield:; title: Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War 24; title: 2 Care and Creation:; title: The Anglo-American Moderists 69; title: 3 Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe:; title: Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant 107; title: 4 Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms:; title: Literature and Theory between the Wars 131; title: SLanguage, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner,; title: Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology 157; title: 6 Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law 192; title: Notes 221; title: Index 301.