The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Twentieth-century British and American war literature
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson.
• Editors: Piette, Adam; Rawlinson, Mark
• Contents: Occasioning peace: three poems of the Anglo-Boer War / Helen Goethals -- 'The essentially modern attitude toward war': English poetry of the great war / Jane Potter -- Debatable ground: freedom and constraint in British First World War prose fiction / Sharon Ouditt -- One of ours in context: the American World War I novel / Jennifer Haytock -- The 'moaning of the world' and the 'words that bring me peace' modernism and the First World War / Sara Haslam -- The great war and the moving image: cinema and memory / Michael Paris -- Irish writing of insurrection and civil war, 1916-39 / Matthew Campbell -- The poetry of the Spanish Civil War / James Fountain -- 'Lucid song': the poetry of the Second World War / Jonathan Bolton -- American poets of World War II / Margot Norris -- Writing after Nuremberg: the judicial imagination in the age of the trauma trial / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- The Second World War in American fiction / John Limon -- The Second World War in British drama since 1968 / Victoria Stewart -- Holocaust testimony: understanding and criticism / Bob Eaglestone -- Holocaust film / Barry Langford -- O, do not dream of peace: American poetry of the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart -- The fictions of nuclear war, from Hiroshima to Vietnam / Adam Piette -- Cold war films / Jonathan Auerbach -- Britain's small wars: domesticating 'emergency' / Lee Erwin -- The disappeared and the damned: duplicity, complicity and reality in the literature of the Pax Americana / Kris Anderson -- Vietnam fictions / Mark A. Heberle -- 'Will there be peace again?': American and Vietnamese poetry on the Vietnam/American war / Subarno Chattarji -- Poetry and the Northern Ireland 'troubles' / Fran Brearton -- The literature of the Falklands/Malvinas War / Jon Begley -- 'An uneven killing field': British literature and the former Yugoslavia / Andrew Hammond -- Sacrifice and the sublime since 11 September 2001 / Alex Houen -- War memorials / David Goldie -- Unsettled memory: a meditation on contested ground / Jane Creighton -- War, policing and surveillance: Pat Barker and the secret state / Jessica Meacham -- American psychiatry, World War II and the Korean War / Martin Halliwell -- Pacifists and conscientious objectors / Ian Patterson -- The representation of refugees in Arthur Koestler's Arrival and departure and Caryl Phillips's A distant shore / Sissy Helff -- 'These rooms / run into each other like tunnels / leading to the underworld': race in war literature / Mark W. Van Wienen -- A spy under every bed: espionage and popular literature from the First World War / Celia M. Kingsbury -- Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau -- Camouflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson -- Warplane / David Pascoe -- Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner -- Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison -- 'An ecstasy of fumbling': gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Das -- Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage -- World electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the séance in World War I / Jane Lewty -- The trenches / Allyson Booth -- Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice -- 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson -- Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second World War/ Leo Mellor -- The eight-week college of the age of extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox -- Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll -- Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed -- The children's war / Katie Trumpener -- The troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly -- Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. Maslen -- Visualising the transformations of war: war and art in the twentieth century / Roger Tolson -- Twentieth-century spy fiction / James Purdon -- 'Play up and play the game!': the narrative of war games / Esther MacCallum-Stewart -- War correspondence / Kate McLoughlin -- Thinking war / Nick Mansfield.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 590 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 820.93581; War in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern; American literature; English literature; War in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748653911; 0748653910; 9780748653935; 0748653937; 9780748653928; 0748653929
• Related ISBNs: 9780748638741; 0748638741
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.