American poetry and the First World War / Tim Dayton.
American poetry and the First World War / Tim Dayton.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/0102
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English
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Physical content
xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- 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 th...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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"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 Whart...
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American poetry and the First World War / Tim Dayton.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-264) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0102
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74VKVjOLBV6y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVjOLBV6y
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ISBN
1108407897 paperback
9781108418782 hardcover
1108418783 hardcover
9781108407892 paperback
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811.509358403
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991024210057502626
