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

• Autore: Vincent Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II