Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War

By Petra Rau

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Between Absence and Ubiquity: On the Meanings of the Body-at-War; P.Rau 'Isn't this Worth Fighting For?' World War I and the (Ab)Uses of the Pastoral Tradition; C.Berberich Violence and the Pacifist Body in Vernon Lee's The Ballet of the Nations; P.Pulham Incommensurate Histories: the Remaindered Irish Bodies of the Great War; E.McNulty 'Soft-skinned Vehicle': Reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin's The Invasion Handbook; M.Rawlinson 'A stiff is still a stiff in this country': the Problem of Murder in Wartime; G.Plain Masculinity, Masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Miller's On the Side of the Angels; Victoria Stewart 'One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare': the Fascinating Fascist Corpus in Contemporary British Fiction; P.Rau 'Resentments': the Politics and Pathologies of War Writing; M.Mackay 'The dangerous edge of things': Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War Fiction; R.Robinson Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349311987
• ISBN13: 9781349311989
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"