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American poetry and the First World War / Tim Dayton

Author
Dayton, Tim, 1960-
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 269 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. America enters the War; 2. American intervention in the First World War: poetry as an ideological form; 3. 'Devotions loyal even to death': Alan Seeger, asceticism, Medievalism, and the martial ideal; 4. 'Dulce et Decorum': Edith Wharton's Great War; 5. Some versions of the epic: World War I and the modern American long poem; 6. 'Wristers Etcetera': Cummings, the Great War, and discursive struggle; Conclusion.
Summary
"American Poetry and the First World War connects American poetry to the political and economic forces behind American participation in World War I. Dayton investigates the ways that poetry was used to imagine the war and studies a wide range of poetry: open and closed form, formal and colloquial, well-known and unknown. In a chapter on Edith Wharton, Dayton demonstrates that many of the features of poetry also found expression in prose about the war. Seeing the war as the opening bid in American ascent to global hegemony, Dayton unlocks some of the ways that literature provided a means by which to accept - and occasionally contest - the price to be paid for power. American Poetry and the First World War draws on a wide range of reading in the primary texts of the period, archival research, historical materialist theory, and work in political and economic history and international relations"--
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9781108418782 hardcover
1108418783 hardcover
9781108407892 paperback
1108407897 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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