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At Home, at War

Domesticity and World War I in American Literature

By: Jennifer Anne Haytock

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At Home, at War

Domesticity and World War I in American Literature

By: Jennifer Anne Haytock

This study demonstrates that such literary divisions as war novel and domestic novel limit readers' understanding of the ways these categories rely on and respond to each other. Haytock argues that gender creates an ideological context through which both domesticity and war are viewed and understood; issues of home and violence are intricately related for U.S. authors who wrote about the First World War. Haytock explores what war and domestic texts represent in light of the deconstructionist said in its cultural and historical context and seeing what is not said. Readers take food, shelter, and clothing for granted, and yet the way we treat them is part of what allows us to define ourselves as civilized. In war novels and domestic novels by Temple Beiley, Ellen, Glasgow, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, John Dos Passons, Thomas Boyd, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, the idea of home and domestic rituals contribute to the creation of war propaganda, the soldier's experience of war, and the home front's ability to confront the war after the fact. This approach helps literary criticism reject the separation of men's and women's writing, particularly but not only their writing about war.

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Ohio State University Press

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0814209327

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9780814209325

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

By: Jennifer Haytock

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The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

By: Jennifer Haytock

War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex: more than just a subject for story-telling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the specificity of how American literature deals with the emotional, intellectual, social, political, and economic contradictions that evolve into and out of war. Raising questions about how American ideals of independence and gender affect representations of war while also considering how specifically American experiences of race and class interweave with representations of combat, this book is a rich and coherent introduction to these texts and critical debates.

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308

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Routledge

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1317422627

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9781317422624

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

By: Jennifer Haytock

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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

By: Jennifer Haytock

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

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A&C Black

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082645321X

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9780826453211

The Middle Class in the Great Depression

Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s

By: Jennifer Haytock

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The Middle Class in the Great Depression

Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s

By: Jennifer Haytock

In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life.

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340

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Springer

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1137347201

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9781137347206

Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism

Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

By: Jennifer A. Williamson

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Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism

Narrative Appropriation in American Literature

By: Jennifer A. Williamson

Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the rhetoric of “feeling right” in order to promote a proletarian or humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with familiar sentimental clichés and ideals. Williamson covers new ground by examining authors who are not generally read for their sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not, including Kathryn Stockett’s novel and film The Help. The book outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege. Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their readers about a range of social justice issues. This book demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and outside of the American family and nation.

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246

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Rutgers University Press

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0813562996

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9780813562995

Reclaiming Nostalgia

Longing for Nature in American Literature

By: Jennifer K. Ladino

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Reclaiming Nostalgia

Longing for Nature in American Literature

By: Jennifer K. Ladino

Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon by tracing its dominant forms in American literature and culture since the closing of the frontier in 1890. While referencing nostalgia for pastoral communities and for untamed and often violent frontiers, she also highlights the ways in which nostalgia for nature has served as a mechanism for social change, a model for ethical relationships, and a motivating force for social and environmental justice.

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456

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University of Virginia Press

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081393334X

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9780813933344

World War I

By: Jennifer D. Keene

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World War I

By: Jennifer D. Keene

Read the experiences of the men and women who served in a horrific war, across the sea-the Great War. Relying extensively on letters, diaries, and reminiscences of those Americans who fought or served in World War I, Jennifer Keene reports on training and camp requirements for enlistees and recruits; the details of the transport across the ocean of sailors, soldiers, and others being carried Over There; and the experiences of African Americans, women, Native Americans and immigrants in The White Man's Army. She also describes in vivid detail, The Sailor's War, and for those on the ground in France and Belgium, the events of static trench warfare, and movement combat. Chapters describe coping with and treating disease and wounds; the devastating amount of death; and for those who came home, the veterans' difficult entrances back into civilian life. A timeline, extensive bibliography or recommended sources, and illustrations add to the usefulness of the volume

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239

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031302152X

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9780313021527

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

By: Jennifer Haytock

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At Home, at War

Domesticity and World War I in American Literature

By: Jennifer Anne Haytock

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Domesticity and World War I in American Literature

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Ohio State University Press

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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

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Book's by Jennifer Anne Haytock

At Home, at War

At Home, at War

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

The Middle Class in the Great Depression

The Middle Class in the Great Depression

Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism

Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism

Reclaiming Nostalgia

Reclaiming Nostalgia

World War I

World War I

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

At Home, at War

At Home, at War

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

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