Table of Contents

Preface
Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century - Susanna A. Throop
Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle - Katie Louise Walter
'Is This War?': British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War - James Purdon
Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England - Catherine A M Clarke
'The Reader myghte lamente': the sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play - Joanna Bellis
Shakespeare's Casus Belly... - Andrew Zurcher
Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor' of Elizabeth Murray Inman - Carol Watts
Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville - Tom F. Wright
A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead - Mary A. Favret
The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an Airman' - Rachel Galvin
Does Tolstoy's War and Peace make modern war literature redundant? - Mark Rawlinson

About the Author

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

Reviews

[P]resents a wide-ranging collection of essays with a strong awareness of the complex moral responsibilities of war writing.
*YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES*

Present[s] a broad-ranging and eclectic examination of our cultural responses to conflict.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*