Research Catalog

Title

Veteran poetics : British literature in the age of mass warfare, 1790-2015 / Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford).

Author

McLoughlin, Catherine Mary, 1970-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Details

Description

xi, 320 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In this first full-length study of the war veteran in literature, Kate McLoughlin draws new critical attention to a figure central to national life. Offering fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical works, she shows how authors from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore questions that are simultaneously personal, political, and philosophical: What does a community owe to those who serve it? What can be recovered from the past? Do people stay the same over time? Are there right times of life at which to do certain things? Is there value in experience? How can wisdom be shared? Veteran Poetics features veterans who travel in time, cause havoc with their reappearances, solve murders, refuse to stop talking about the wars they have been in, and refuse to say a word about them. Through this last trait, they also prompt consideration of possible critical responses to silence.

Alternative Title

British literature in the age of mass warfare, 1790-2015

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Veterans in literature
• War in literature
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• English literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "In this first full-length study of the war veteran in literature, Kate McLoughlin draws new critical attention to a figure central to national life. Offering fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical works, she shows how authors from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore questions that are simultaneously personal, political, and philosophical: What does a community owe to those who serve it? What can be recovered from the past? Do people stay the same over time? Are there right times of life at which to do certain things? Is there value in experience? How can wisdom be shared? Veteran Poetics features veterans who travel in time, cause havoc with their reappearances, solve murders, refuse to stop talking about the wars they have been in, and refuse to say a word about them. Through this last trait, they also prompt consideration of possible critical responses to silence."--Jacket cover flap.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-7801

ISBN

• 1107195934
• 9781107195936

OCLC

1013589216

Author

McLoughlin, Catherine Mary, 1970- author.

Title

Veteran poetics : British literature in the age of mass warfare, 1790-2015 / Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford).

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7801