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- War and American Literature
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- War and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Aspects of War in American Literature
- Chapter 1 War and Morality
- Chapter 2 Propaganda for War from the Revolution to the Vietnam War
- Chapter 3 Representing Soldiers
- Chapter 4 Bodies, Injury, Medicine
- Chapter 5 Veterans, Trauma, Afterwar
- Chapter 6 Mourning, Elegy, Memorialization from the Civil War to Vietnam
- Chapter 7 On Antiwar Literature
- Part II Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination
- Part III New Lines of Inquiry
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 7 - On Antiwar Literature
from Part I - Aspects of War in American Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
- War and American Literature
- Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- War and American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Aspects of War in American Literature
- Chapter 1 War and Morality
- Chapter 2 Propaganda for War from the Revolution to the Vietnam War
- Chapter 3 Representing Soldiers
- Chapter 4 Bodies, Injury, Medicine
- Chapter 5 Veterans, Trauma, Afterwar
- Chapter 6 Mourning, Elegy, Memorialization from the Civil War to Vietnam
- Chapter 7 On Antiwar Literature
- Part II Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination
- Part III New Lines of Inquiry
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The history of the United States is full of war, and D. H. Lawrence famously said that the essential American is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. But that same history is also full of fruitful, thoughtful, courageous opposition to war, and of manifestations of the antiwar impulse in impressively varied and intense literary and artistic forms. This essay sets out that long history and discusses some of those manifestations from the Civil War to the present.
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- War and American Literature , pp. 103 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021