War and American Literature

Jennifer Haytock (State University College, Brockport, New York)

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English

Cambridge University Press
04 February 2021

True war & combat stories; Literary studies: general; Literary reference works; War & combat fiction; American Civil War

Series: Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture

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.

Edited by: Jennifer Haytock (State University College Brockport New York)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 750g
ISBN: 9781108496803
ISBN 10: 1108496806
Series: Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 04 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Haytock is professor of English at SUNY Brockport. She has published At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003) and the Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018) as well as works on twentieth-century American women writers. She is Brockport's 2019 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Reviews for War and American Literature

… a diverse volume … It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement 'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice Connect