Cambridge Companion to War Writing

Name: Cambridge Companion to War Writing
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ISBN: 9780521720045

ISBN-10: 0521720044

ISBN-13: 9780521720045

Edition: 2009

Authors: Kate McLoughlin

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Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Kate McLoughlin is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (2007) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).



Chronology


Introduction




Themes



The idea of war




War and words




People in war




War zones




War in print journalism




Influences



The Bible




Classical war literature




Poetics



Medieval warfare




Early modern war writing and the British Civil Wars




The eighteenth century and the Romantics on war




American Revolutionary War writing




The Victorians and war




The American Civil War




The First World War: British writing




The First World War: American writing




The Spanish Civil War




The Second World War: British writing Mark Rawlinson



The Second World War: American writing




American writing of the wars in Korea and Vietnam




The Cold War and the 'War on Terror'



Index