Preface
Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth
Century - Susanna A. Throop
Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in
Battle - Katie Louise Walter
'Is This War?': British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War -
James Purdon
Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in
Twelfth-Century England - Catherine A M Clarke
'The Reader myghte lamente': the sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen
(1418) in chronicle, poem and play - Joanna Bellis
Shakespeare's Casus Belly... - Andrew Zurcher
Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies,
Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor' of Elizabeth Murray Inman -
Carol Watts
Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman
Melville - Tom F. Wright
A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead -
Mary A. Favret
The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an
Airman' - Rachel Galvin
Does Tolstoy's War and Peace make modern war literature redundant?
- Mark Rawlinson
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
[P]resents a wide-ranging collection of essays with a strong
awareness of the complex moral responsibilities of war writing.
*YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES*
Present[s] a broad-ranging and eclectic examination of our cultural
responses to conflict.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
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