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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 January 2021
      04 February 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108654883
      9781108496803
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108654883
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 394 Pages
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      • Series:
      Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    Series:
    Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.

    Reviews

    … a diverse volume … It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.’

    Alice Kelly Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘Highly recommended.’

    G. Grieve-Carlson Source: Choice Connect

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