Susan L. Carruthers

Dear John (eBook, ePUB)

Love and Loyalty in Wartime America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on personal letters, oral histories, and psychiatric reports, as well as popular music and movies, Susan L. Carruthers shows how the armed forces and civilian society have attempted to weaponize romantic love in pursuit of martial ends, from World War II to today. Yet efforts to discipline feeling have frequently failed. And women have often borne the blame. This sweeping history of emotional life in wartime explores the interplay between letter-writing and storytelling, breakups and breakdowns, and between imploded intimacy and boosted camaraderie. Incorporating vivid personal experiences in lively and engaging prose - variously tragic, comic, and everything in between - this compelling study will change the way we think about wartime relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108915724
• Artikelnr.: 66193617

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Carruthers is Professor of US and International History, University of Warwick. The author of six books, including The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace, she taught for fifteen years at Rutgers University-Newark, and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Princeton, and the Woodrow Wilson Center. She was a finalist for the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Picking up the pieces
1. The marital and the martial
2. Rules of engagement, or 'write right!'
3. Technologies of proximity
4. 'That's all she wrote': Telling Dear John stories
5. 'The modern Penelope': Aanalyzing the waiting wife
6. Emotional injury: Causes and consequences
7. Severed ties and suicide
Conclusion.