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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature: From the Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
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1: Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice
2: The Crimean War and (Self-)Sacrifice in Mid-Victorian Fiction
THE CRIMEAN WAR IN THE BRITISH LITERARY IMAGINATION
ON THE HEROIC IN VICTORIAN HISTORY
CHARLES DICKENS AND (SELF-)SACRIFICE
3: The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice
4: The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice
5: Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction
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6: Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the First World War
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7: ‘Freely Proffered’?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell
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8: ‘A bit of shrapnel’: The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats, and the Easter Rising
9: The Penny’s Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics
10: The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War
11: ‘It is the poems you have lost’: Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War
12: Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold-War Citizen
SAMUEL BECKETT’S TRILOGY, SARTRE, AND THE FRENCH COLD WAR
BUNKERS, BECKETT, BOWEN
COLD-WAR VICTIMHOOD AND NUCLEAR SACRIFICE: BENJAMIN, BALLARD, OLIVER
THE MIMETIC TRIANGLE AND HOMO SACER SCAPEGOAT: GIRARD AND AGAMBEN
13: The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years On
14: ‘Atrocities against his Sacred Poet’: The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
15: Reckoning Sacrifice in ‘War on Terror’ Literature
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Afterword
Select Bibliography
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General Index