War and Literary Studies

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Anders Engberg-Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark) Neil Ramsey (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

War and Literary Studies

Anders Engberg-Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark), Neil Ramsey (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

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Cambridge University Press
05 January 2023

Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary reference works; War & combat fiction

Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts

War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?

Edited by: Anders Engberg-Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark), Neil Ramsey (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781316511480
ISBN 10: 1316511480
Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 05 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I. Origins and Theories: 1. War and classical Athens Edith Foster; 2. War and Chinese culture Huiwen Helen Zhang and Haun Saussy; 3. War and romantic thought Wolf Kittler; 4. War and critical theory Max Pensky; 5. War and French theory Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 6. War and media studies Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 7. War and postcolonial thought Santanu Das; Part II. Foundational Concepts: 8. War and language Nil Santiáñez; 9. War and modernist aesthetics Paul Sheehan; 10. War and historicity Elizabeth Krimmer; 11. War and sensation Sarah Cole; 12. War and civilians Mark Rawlinson; 13. War and trauma Neil Ramsey and Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 14. War and religion Peter Madsen; 15. War and gender Margot Norris; Part III. Emerging Concepts: 16. War and drones Debjani Ganguly; 17. War and humanitarianism Eleni Coundouriotis; 18. War and capitalism Neil Ramsey; 19. War and revolution Jan Mieszkowski; 20. War and biopolitics Arne de Boever; 21. War and nuclear criticism Adam Piette; 22. War and the personality of power Brian Massumi.

Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of Comparative Literature at The University of Southern Denmark. He is the author of two monographs, Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (2015), and of Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (2023). He edits the book series Prisms: Humanities and War. Neil Ramsey is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is author of two monographs, The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835 (2011) and Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2022).