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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary "The Health of the State is a cultural history that considers 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject War stories, American -- History and criticism War and literature -- United States War in literature. Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Political culture -- United States -- 20th century Political culture -- United States -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Political culture Politics and literature War and literature War in literature War stories, American United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016035606 ISBN 9780190466671 0190466677 9780190466688 0190466685

Other Titles US war narrative and the American political imagination, 1890-1964

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