The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138917552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 188 str.

Jennifer Haytock

Opis

War tends to reshape literature, as violence often focuses writers' and readers' attention on emotional, intellectual, social, political, and economic contradictions that evolve into and out of war.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  1 Literature of the American Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War;  2 Literature of the American Civil War;  3 Literature of World War I;  4 Literature of World War II;  5 Literature of the wars in Korea and Viet Nam;  6 Literature of the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Jennifer Haytock is Professor of English at The College at Brockport, SUNY. Her work includes At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature, two other monographs, and articles on Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and novels about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.