War at a Distance (eBook)

Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime

Mary A. Favret (Autor)

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2009
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3155-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: aberrant • Abjection • absolute war • absurdity • aftermath of world war I • A History of Warfare • alarmism • Ambiguity • Anachronism • Anatomy of Criticism • Anne Elliot • Anthropomorphism • aphorism • A World At War • Bankruptcy • Battlement • Battle of Hohenlinden • belligerent • Beyond the Pleasure Principle • Blank Verse • Boredom • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • Charles Simic • Criticism • declaration of war • defection • Discipline and Punish • Disenchantment • Duel • Embarrassment • Emptiness • End of History • engraving • Fall of Babylon • Fears in Solitude • Foe (novel) • Franco-Prussian War • Fratricide • Frost at Midnight • Futility (poem) • Georgics • historical fiction • Into the Darkness (novel) • Jacques Derrida • Just War Theory • Kubla Khan • Lament • Laurence Sterne • limited war • Line of battle • Literature • Lord Byron • lost history • Lytton Strachey • meteorology • Militarism • militarization • military campaign • military history • Military Operation • Mise en abyme • Modernity • Monomania • Napoleon • napoleonic wars • on war • order of battle • Perversion • picturesque • Poetry • Postmodernism • post-structuralism • Regarding the Pain of Others • REGICIDE • Romanticism • Rout • temporality • The Disasters of War • The Face of War • The Far Side of the World • The Fighting Temeraire • The Other Hand • Theses on the Philosophy of History • The Wretched of the Earth • Thunder • Total War • Trojan War • Uncertainty • Unknown World • V. • vulnerability • war • War and War • warfare • War in the Age of Intelligent Machines • war photography • war times • Winter in Wartime • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3155-5 / 1400831555
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3155-5 / 9781400831555