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Autore: |
Vincent Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
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Titolo: |
The health of the state : modern US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964 / / Jonathan Vincent
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Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 810.93581 |
Soggetto topico: | War stories, American - History and criticism |
War and literature - United States | |
War in literature | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The health of the state ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-065037-0 |
0-19-046668-5 | |
0-19-046667-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154718103321 |
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