War at a Distance
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-14276-0 (ISBN)
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What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, "War at a Distance" considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era, and describes how global military operations affected the British populace, as the nation's army and navy waged battles far from home for decades. She reveals that the literature and art produced in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries obsessively cultivated means for feeling as much as understanding such wars, and established forms still relevant today.
Favret examines wartime literature and art as varied as meditations on the Iliad, the history of meteorology, landscape painting in India, and popular poetry in newspapers and periodicals; she locates the embedded sense of war and dislocation in works ranging from Austen, Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Woolf, Stevens, and Sebald; and, she contemplates how literature provides the public with methods for responding to violent calamities happening elsewhere. Bringing to light Romanticism's legacy in reflections on modern warfare, this book shows that war's absent presence affects home in deep and irrevocable ways.
Mary A. Favret is associate professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of "Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters".
List of Illustrations ix PRELUDE: A Winter's Evening 1 PART I: Modern Wartime: Media and Affect CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: A Sense of War 9 War Mediated 12 Worlds Without and Within 22 Wartime Without Limits 30 War as All Wars 40 World Wars 43 CHAPTER TWO: Telling Time in War 49 Wartime 49 Modes of Temporality, Structures of Feeling 53 The Post-Boy and the News 59 The Meantime 68 Prophecy 81 INTERLUDE: Still Winter Falls 98 PART II: Invasions CHAPTER THREE: War in the Air 119 Live Air 120 Beyond Control 123 Early Weather Science: Grounding the Weather 126 A Georgics of the Sky 131 Voices in the Air 138 CHAPTER FOUR: Everyday War 145 A History of Suffering 146 No Peace 151 Diverting Away the Time 161 A Broken Story 165 INTERLUDE: A Brief History of the Meaning of War 173 PART III: War in the World CHAPTER FIVE: Viewing War at a Distance 187 War in Pictures 190 Worlding India 198 The Historical Sublime 212 The Rope-Bridge 220 CODA: Undone 230 Acknowledgments 235 Bibliography 239 Index 255
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.11.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 halftones. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 482 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-14276-9 / 0691142769 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-14276-0 / 9780691142760 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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