War and Literature

Joanna Bellis; Catherine A. M. Clarke; Mary A. Favret; Rachel Galvin; James Purdon; Mark Rawlinson; Susanna A. Throop; Katie J. Walter; Carol Watts; Tom F. Wright; Andrew Zurcher

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Edited by Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson
With contributions by Joanna Bellis , Catherine A. M. Clarke , Mary A. Favret , Rachel Galvin , James Purdon , Mark Rawlinson , Susanna A. Throop , Katie J. Walter , Carol Watts , Tom F. Wright and Andrew Zurcher

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: October 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781782043140

Subjects:: Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Series:: Essays and Studies

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War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's "Casus Belly"; Auden's "Journal of an Airman"; and War and Peace. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie J. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F. Wright, Andrew Zurcher.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors
pp viii-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

I - IDEOLOGIES
pp 1-2

Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century
pp 3-20

Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle
pp 21-40

‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War
pp 41-58

II - INTERPRETATIONS
pp 59-60

Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England
pp 61-83

‘The Reader myghte lamente’: The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play
pp 84-106

Shakespeare's Casus Belly; or, Cormorant War, and the Wasting of Men on Shakespeare's Stage; or, Eating Wars and Digesting Plays; or, The Art of Chucking Men Into Pits; or, Shakespeare, Tacitism, and Why Plato Don't Matter
pp 107-138

Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the ‘Muckle Honor’ of Elizabeth Murray Inman
pp 139-162

Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville
pp 163-182

III - AFTERMATHS
pp 183-184

A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead
pp 185-204

The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's ‘Journal of an Airman’
pp 205-227

Does Tolstoy's War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant?
pp 228-248

Index
pp 249-254

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