War and Literature

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War and Literature

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

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 67 | Essays and Studies

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Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

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Ashe Laura :

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

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Literary Studies Topics in Literary Studies Literary Studies and Linguistics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Laura Ashe and Ian Patterson Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
I Ideologies
Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century Susanna A. Throop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle Katie L. Walter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War James Purdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
II Interpretations
Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England Catherine A. M. Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
‘The Reader myghte lamente’: The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play Joanna Bellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 Andrew Zurcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the ‘Muckle Honor’ of Elizabeth Murray Inman Carol Watts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville Tom F. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
III Aftermaths
A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead Mary A. Favret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden’s ‘Journal of an Airman’ Rachel Galvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Does Tolstoy’s War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant? Mark Rawlinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

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July 17, 2014

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9781782043140

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D.S.Brewer

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272

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5 b/w illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782043140

eBook ISBN: 9781782043140

Keywords for this book

War; Literature; Middle Ages; Modern Literature; Crusades; Hundred Years War; Shakespeare; Auden; War and Peace

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Professional and scholarly;

War and Literature

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