Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: Between Absence and Ubiquity — on the Meanings of the Body-at-War

Chapter 2 ‘Isn’t This Worth Fighting For?’ The First World War and the (Ab)Uses of the Pastoral Tradition

Chapter 3 Violence and the Pacifist Body in Vernon Lee’s The Ballet of the Nations

Chapter 4 Incommensurate Histories: the Remaindered Irish Bodies of the Great War

Chapter 5 ‘Soft-skinned Vehicle’: Reading the Second World War in Tom Paulin’s The Invasion Handbook

Chapter 6 ‘A stiff is still a stiff in this country’: the Problem of Murder in Wartime

Chapter 7 Masculinity, Masquerade and the Second World War: Betty Miller’s On the Side of the Angels

Chapter 8 ‘One step closer to the dreamers of the nightmare’: the Fascinating Fascist Corpus in Contemporary British Fiction

Chapter 9 ‘Resentments’: the Politics and Pathologies of War Writing

Chapter 10 ‘The dangerous edge of things’: Geopolitical Bodies and Cold War Fiction