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‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- Preface xi
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I Ideologies
- Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century 3
- Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle 21
- ‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War 41
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II Interpretations
- Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England 61
- ‘The Reader myghte lamente’: The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play 84
- 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 107
- Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the ‘Muckle Honor’ of Elizabeth Murray Inman 139
- Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville 163
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III Aftermaths
- A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead 185
- The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden’s ‘Journal of an Airman’ 205
- Does Tolstoy’s War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant? 228
- Index 249
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- Preface xi
-
I Ideologies
- Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century 3
- Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle 21
- ‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War 41
-
II Interpretations
- Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England 61
- ‘The Reader myghte lamente’: The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play 84
- 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 107
- Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the ‘Muckle Honor’ of Elizabeth Murray Inman 139
- Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville 163
-
III Aftermaths
- A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead 185
- The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden’s ‘Journal of an Airman’ 205
- Does Tolstoy’s War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant? 228
- Index 249