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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Wachtell, Cynthia J. "War No More: The Emergence of Anti-War Literature for the Civil War Through World War I," History of American Civilization, Harvard University, June 1998.
War No More analyzes the gradual shift in popular and literary attitudes from Civil War era romanticism to the distinctly unromantic conception of war prevalent in the wake of World War I. The work argues that early anti-war literature must be understood as representing a conscious rejection of traditional attitudes about masculinity, bravery, faith, and individualism widely held in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Organized thematically, the chapters explore such issues as censorship, religion, mechanization, and sex. Authors whose war-writings are examined include: Melville, Whitman, De Forest, Hawthorne, Crane, Bierce, Twain, Wharton, Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos and Faulkner.
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