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Subject(s)

• War [Browse]
• War in art [Browse]
• War in literature [Browse]
• Collective memory—United States [Browse]
• Popular culture—United States [Browse]

Summary note

"A study of war and its myriad representations in art, history, and memory, from the early modern era to the present."--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: A dreadful fascination
• Arms and the Bard : soldiering in Shakespeare
• Bury their hearts at Horseshoe Band
• Ted Turner et al. at Gettysburg; or, Reenactors in the attic
• What Lady Butler knew
• Qingdao and the archaeologies of war
• Ralph Vaughan Williams's long journey out of war
• History and memory in the great war paintings of John Singer Sargent
• The great party crasher : Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, and the cultures of World War I remembering
• What Kurt Vonnegut saw in World War II that made him insane (along with Billy Pilgrim, Rabo Karabekian, Eliot Rosewater, and others)
• Script by Stephen Crane, novel by John Huston, movie by MGM
• In the Museo de la Revolucíon; or, The ghost of José Martí
• By the numbers : Americans, Vietnamese, and the figures of sacrifice
• Conclusion: The forever wars.

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ISBN

• 9780817319304 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0817319301 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016017206

OCLC

946987596

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