The Language of War

Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

James Dawes

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction
    Language and Violence: The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory

    1. Counting on the Battlefield:
    Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War

    2. Care and Creation:
    The Anglo-American Modernists

    3. Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe:
    Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant

    4. Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms:
    Literature and Theory between the Wars

    5. Language, Violence, and Bureaucracy:
    William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology

    6. Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The Language of War
  • A photo of the author

James Dawes is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Macalester College.