The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature / edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson
Imprint
Edingburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016
Descript
x, 590 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Wars and their literatures: The essentially modern attitude toward war: English poetry of the Great War ; Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction ; One of Ours in context: the American World War I novel ; The Great War and the moving images: cinema and memory ; Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 ; The poetry of the Spanish Civil War ; American poets of World War II ; The Second World War in American fiction ; O, Do Not Dream of Peace: American poetry of the Korean War ; The fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam ; Cold War films ; Vietnam fictions ; British literature and the Former Yugoslavia ; Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 -- Bodies, behaviour, cultures: America psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War -- Technology -- Spaces -- Genres: Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill ; Nuclear war in science fiction ; The children's war ; Twentieth-century spy fiction
SUBJECT
War in literature
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism