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Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature

Bodies-at-War

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  1. Petra Rau

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Between Absence and Ubiquity — on the Meanings of the Body-at-War

    • Petra Rau
    Pages 1-25

  3. ‘Isn’t This Worth Fighting For?’ The First World War and the (Ab)Uses of the Pastoral Tradition

    • Christine Berberich
    Pages 26-45

  4. Violence and the Pacifist Body in Vernon Lee’s The Ballet of the Nations

    • Patricia Pulham
    Pages 46-63

  5. Incommensurate Histories: the Remaindered Irish Bodies of the Great War

    • Eugene McNulty
    Pages 64-82

  6. ‘Soft-skinned Vehicle’: Reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin’s The Invasion Handbook

    • Mark Rawlinson
    Pages 83-103

  7. ‘A stiff is still a stiff in this country’: the Problem of Murder in Wartime

    • Gill Plain
    Pages 104-123

  8. Masculinity, Masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Miller’s On the Side of the Angels

    • Victoria Stewart
    Pages 124-142

  9. ‘One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare’: the Fascinating Fascist Corpus in Contemporary British Fiction

    • Petra Rau
    Pages 143-163

  10. ‘Resentments’: the Politics and Pathologies of War Writing

    • Marina MacKay
    Pages 164-184

  11. ‘The dangerous edge of things’: Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War Fiction

    • Richard Robinson
    Pages 185-204

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 205-207
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This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.

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'The essays collected by Rau offer a broad and provocative analysis of the "vanishing body", ranging across the twentieth-century in term os of literature and history...This is a valuable collection of essays which builds on the Foucauldian-inspired work associated with the body as a historically shifting construct and connects it to a series of hithero minor texts in the literature of war.' - Routledge ABES June 2011

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  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Petra Rau

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CHRISTINE BERBERICH Senior Lecturer in 19th and 20th-century English and European Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK MARINA MACKAY Washington University, St. Louis, USA EUGENE MCNULTY Lecturer in English, St Patrick's College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland GILL PLAIN Professor of English Literature and Popular Culture, University of St Andrews, UK PATRICIA PULHAM Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK RICHARD ROBINSON Lecturer in English, Swansea University, UK MARK RAWLINSON Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leicester, UK VICTORIA STEWART Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Leicester, UK

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