The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature

Edited by Adam Piette and Mark Rawlinson

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August, 2013
Cloth, 600 pages, 17 B/W illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3874-1
Edinburgh University Press
$240.00

The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film Covering the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination. These newly researched and innovative essays connect 'high' literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively cover the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction. The volume is divided into five sections: Twentieth-Century Wars and Their Literatures; Bodies, Behaviours, Cultures; The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War; The Spaces of Modern War; Genres of War Culture.

About the Author

Adam Piette is at the University of Sheffield. Mark Rawlinson is at the University of Leicester.

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