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Conflict, nationhood and corporeality in modern literature [electronic resource] : bodies-at-war /

by Rau, Petra; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: x, 207 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | War in literature | Human body in literature | War and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: between absence and ubiquity: on the meanings of the body-at-war / Petra Rau -- "Isn't this worth fighting for?" World War I and the (ab)uses of the pastoral tradition / Christine Berberich -- Violence and the pacifist body in Vernon Lee's The ballet of the nations / Patricia Pulham -- Incommensurate histories: the remaindered Irish bodies of the Great War / Eugene McNulty -- "Soft-skinned vehicle': reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin's The invasion handbook / Mark Rawlinson -- "A stiff is still a stiff in this country": the problem of murder in wartime / Gill 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 / Petra Rau -- Resentments: the politics and pathologies of war writing / Marina Mackay -- "The dangerous edge of things": geopolitical bodies and Cold War fiction / Richard Robinson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: between absence and ubiquity: on the meanings of the body-at-war / Petra Rau -- "Isn't this worth fighting for?" World War I and the (ab)uses of the pastoral tradition / Christine Berberich -- Violence and the pacifist body in Vernon Lee's The ballet of the nations / Patricia Pulham -- Incommensurate histories: the remaindered Irish bodies of the Great War / Eugene McNulty -- "Soft-skinned vehicle': reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin's The invasion handbook / Mark Rawlinson -- "A stiff is still a stiff in this country": the problem of murder in wartime / Gill 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 / Petra Rau -- Resentments: the politics and pathologies of war writing / Marina Mackay -- "The dangerous edge of things": geopolitical bodies and Cold War fiction / Richard Robinson.

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