The language of war : literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dawes, James, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. War in literature. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. United States > History, Military. English language > Social aspects > United States. Language and culture > United States > History. World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war. Violence > United States > Historiography. Violence in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Language and violence : The Civil War and literary and cultural theory
Counting on the battlefield : literature and philosophy after the Civil War
Care and creation : the Anglo-American modernists
Freedom, luck, and catastrophe : Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant
Trauma and the structure of social norms : literature and theory between the wars
Language, violence, and bureaucracy : William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and organizational sociology
Total war, Anomie, and human rights law.