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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated with sacrifice have been increasingly rejected by writers and others. However, this volume shows that literature has continued to address how different conceptions of sacrifice have been invoked in times of war to convert losses into gains or ideals. While those conceptions have sometimes been rooted in a secular rationalism that values lost lives in terms of political or national victories, spiritual and religious conceptions of sacrifice are also still in evidence, as with the 'martyrdom operations' of jihadis fighting against the 'war on terror'.
Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict and the contributions explore major war writers including Wordsworth, Kipling, Ford Madox Ford, and Elizabeth Bowen, as well as lesser known authors such as Dora Sigerson, Richard Aldington, Thomas Kinsella, and Nadeem Aslam. The volume covers multiple genres including novels, poetry (particularly elegy and lyric), memoirs, and some films. The contributions address a rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice including scapegoating, martyrdom, religious faith, tragedy, heroism, altruism, 'bare life', atonement, and redemption.
Contents
Introduction
1: Philip Shaw: Wordsworth, Waterloo, and Sacrifice
2: Jan-Melissa Schramm: 'I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy': The Crimean War and the 'Inspiration' of (Self-) Sacrifice in mid-Victorian Fiction
3: Christopher Herbert: The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice
4: Randall Fuller: The Poetics of American Civil War Sacrifice
5: Steve Attridge: Character, Sacrifice, and Scapegoats: Boer War Fiction
6: Vincent Sherry: Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War
7: Tim Kendall: 'Freely Proffered'?: The Deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell
8: Matthew Campbell: 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising
9: Ian Patterson: The Penny's Mighty Sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and Left Poetics
10: Mark Rawlinson: The Motif of Sacrifice in the Literature and Culture of the Second World War
11: Helen Goethals: 'It is the poems you have lost': Poetry and Sacrifice during the Second World War
12: Adam Piette: Sacrifice and the Inner Organs of the Cold War Citizen
13: Philip Beidler: The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years Later
14: David Wheatley: 'Atrocities Against His Sacred Poet': The Orpheus Myth and the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
15: Alex Houen: Reckoning Sacrifice in 'War on Terror' Literature
