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Civilizing war : imperial politics and the poetics of national rupture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mufti, Nasser (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Civil war in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Great Britain > Colonies > Civilization.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Civility
  • A glimpse of social war
  • A nexus of fratricide
  • The long civil war
  • Civilizing mission
  • Civil war, the highest stage of civilization
  • Civil war, the lowest stage of civilization
  • Incivility
  • A bend in the historical novel
  • Postcolonial interregnum
  • Coda: Global civil war.