Jonathan Vincent

Health of the State

Modern Us War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890-1964

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Produktbeschreibung

The Health of the State is a cultural history that explores how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190466664
• ISBN-10: 0190466669
• Artikelnr.: 47864474

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Vincent is Assistant Professor of English at Towson University.

Inhaltsangabe

* TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: The Health of the State
* Chapter 1: Paradoxical Pedagogies: Civil War Narratives and the
Progressive State, 1890-1917
* Chapter 2: Preparedness Nation: World War I and the Culture of
Militarization
* Chapter 3: "A Bestial Convulsion of Civilization": Race and Nation in
American Modernism
* Preface to Part II: The "Analogue of War" and the Liberal Warfare
State
* Chapter 4: A Peculiar Sovereignty: Literary Antifascism and the
Liberal Warfare State
* Chapter 5: The Vacant Center: Cold War Liberalism and World War II
Narrative
* Chapter 6: Refusing Sovereignty: Impossible Subjects and the Politics
of Resistance
* Afterword: Security, Identity, Nonsovereignty
* Notes
* Works Cited