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Title Sacrifice and modern war literature : from the battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror / edited by Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Schramm.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Contents Introduction: sacrifice and modern war literature / Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Wordsworth, Waterloo, and sacrifice / Philip Shaw -- The Crimean War and (self- ) sacrifice in mid-Victorian fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / Christopher Herbert -- The poetics of American Civil War sacrifice / Randall Fuller -- Character, sacrifice, and scapegoats: Boer War fiction / Steve Attridge -- Bare death: The failing sacrifice of the Great War / Vincent Sherry -- 'Freely proffered'?: the deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / Tim Kendall -- 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / Matthew Campbell -- The Penny's mighty sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and left poetics / Ian Patterson -- The motif of sacrifice in the literature and culture of the Second World War / Mark Rawlinson -- 'It is the poems you have lost': poetry and sacrifice during the Second World War / Helen Goethals -- Sacrifice and the inner organs of the Cold War citizen / Adam Piette -- The Vietnam War, American remembering, and the measure of sacrifice, fifty Years On / Philip Beidler -- 'Atrocities against his sacred poet': The Orpheus myth and the poetry of the Northern Irish troubles / David Wheatley -- Reckoning sacrifice in 'War on Terror' literature / Alex Houen -- Afterward / Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Schramm.
Summary This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice that the contributors discuss.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject War in literature.
War in literature.
War stories -- History and criticism.
War stories.
Genre/Form War stories.
Subject Sacrifice in literature.
Sacrifice in literature.
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Fiction.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
American literature.
English literature.
Literature and society.
English-speaking countries.
Chronological Term 1800-2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Houen, Alex, editor.
Schramm, Jan-Melissa, editor.
Other Form: Print version : 9780198806516 (OCoLC)1013584981
ISBN 9780192529107 (electronic book)
0192529102 (electronic book)
9780191844126
0191844128
9780198806516
0198806515