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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154718103321

Autore

Vincent Jonathan (Jonathan E.)

Titolo

The health of the state : modern US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964 / / Jonathan Vincent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-065037-0

0-19-046668-5

0-19-046667-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

810.93581

Soggetti

War stories, American - History and criticism

War and literature - United States

War in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Health of the State -- Liberalism and War in American Political Discourse -- Organizational Affect, Modern Temporality, and the Imagined Future  War Narrative's Flexible Pedagogy -- A Conclusion on Methodology -- Paradoxical Pedagogies: Civil War Narratives and the Progressive State, 1890-1917 -- Preparedness Nation: World War I and the Culture of Militarization -- "A Bestial Convulsion of Civilization": Race and Nation in American Modernism -- A Peculiar Sovereignty: Literary Antifascism and the Liberal Warfare State -- The Vacant Center: Cold War Liberalism and World War II Narrative -- Refusing Sovereignty: Impossible Subjects and the Politics of Resistance -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Health of the State' is a cultural history that explores how war writing figured in three phases of modern America's political evolution: Civil War remembrance during the Progressive Era, the culture of World War I and the new internationalism, and World War II's legitimation of Cold War liberalism.