Culture in camouflage : war, empire, and modern British literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Deer, Patrick, 1966-
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war. World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Littérature et guerre. Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature War and literature 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Abstract:	"This book remaps the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. Offering the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, it explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene challenged and contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an enormously powerful mass media and culture industry. Modern war cultures, the book contends, are defined by their drive to normalize conflict and war making, by their struggle to colonize the entire wartime cultural field, and by claims to monopolize representations and interpretation of the conflict"--Abstract
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780199239887 0199239886 9780191567513 0191567515 9780191716782 0191716782