War and Literature

Herausgeber: Ashe, Laura; Patterson, Ian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781843843818
• ISBN-10: 1843843811
• Artikelnr.: 40495449

Autorenporträt

Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth
Century - Susanna A. Throop Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval
Theories of the Body in Battle - Katie Louise Walter 'Is This War?':
British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War - James Purdon Crossing
the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England -
Catherine A M Clarke 'The Reader myghte lamente': the sieges of Calais
(1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play - Joanna Bellis
Shakespeare's Casus Belly... - Andrew Zurcher Unnavigable Kinship in a Time
of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor'
of Elizabeth Murray Inman - Carol Watts Proclaiming the War News: Richard
Caton Woodville and Herman Melville - Tom F. Wright A Feeling for Numbers:
Representing the Scale of the War Dead - Mary A. Favret The Guilt of the
Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an Airman' - Rachel Galvin Does
Tolstoy's War and Peace make modern war literature redundant? - Mark
Rawlinson