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Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature
Patrick Deer
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Description for Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature
Paperback. The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature. Deer explores writers' attempts to find their perspectives on the action in the face of the shattering violence and alienation of total war and an overpowering official war culture. Num Pages: 342 pages, 12 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 530.
Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, arguing that its exceptional forms and temporalities force us to reappraise British cultural modernity. The book explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an ... Read more
Culture in Camouflage aims to remap the history of British war culture by insisting on the centrality and importance of the literature of the Second World War. The book offers the first comprehensive account of the emergence of modern war culture, arguing that its exceptional forms and temporalities force us to reappraise British cultural modernity. The book explores how writers like Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Hanley, Rex Warner, Alexander Baron, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, and Graham Greene contested the dominant narratives of war projected by an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198715580
SKU
V9780198715580
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About Patrick Deer
Patrick Deer teaches in the English Department at New York University. His teaching interests include 20th-century British literature, war culture, modernism, postcolonial literature and theory, Anglophone literature, cultural studies, the novel and film, critical theory, and gender studies. He is Guest Editor of 'The Ends of War', a Special Issue of Social Text (2007) vol. 25.2., and Co-Editor, with Gyan ... Read more
Reviews for Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature
Review from previous edition an exciting book, full of good analyses of individual texts
David Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement
a major contribution to scholarship on the literature and official culture of World War II
Paul K. Saint-Amour, Modern Fiction Studies, Fall 2010
Patrick Deer has provided an extremely interesting book to read, full of intelligent discussion ... Read more
David Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement
a major contribution to scholarship on the literature and official culture of World War II
Paul K. Saint-Amour, Modern Fiction Studies, Fall 2010
Patrick Deer has provided an extremely interesting book to read, full of intelligent discussion ... Read more