The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature

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The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson

Title variation

Twentieth-century British and American war literature

Contributor

• ebrary, Inc
• Piette, Adam
• Rawlinson, Mark

Subject

• American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English Literature -- History And Criticism | 20Th Century
• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• War in literature

Language

eng

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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

820.93581

LC call number

PR408.W37

LC item number

E35 2012eb

Summary expansion

An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary ‘hot spots’: Freud’s Vienna and Conrad’s Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001. The Companion * reanimates twentieth-century literary history* gives unique insight into the literary imagination via the focus on pivotal times and places* provides an unprecedented view of literatures in English in global contexts from Berlin to Bradford, Florence to Flanders, Lagos to Liverpool, Madrid to Melbourne, and San Francisco to Stockholm* offers illuminating analyses of authors and texts from across the century* brings together expert contributors from around the world