War and American Literature

Description

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.

Jennifer Haytock is professor of English at SUNY Brockport. She has published At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Literature (2003) and the Routledge Introduction to American War Literature (2018) as well as works on twentieth-century American women writers. She is Brockport's 2019 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

... a diverse volume ... It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement 'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice Connect