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Mary A Favret

War at a distance : romanticism and the making of modern wartime /Mary A Favret - Princeton : Princeton University Press , ©2010. - ix, 262 pages ;24 cm

Prelude : a winter's evening --
Ch. 1. Introduction : a sense of war --
Ch. 2. Telling time in war --
Ch. 3. War in the air --
Ch. 4. Everyday war --
Ch. 5. Viewing war at a distance --
Coda : undone.

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe? Timely and thought-provoking, War at a Distance considers how those left on the home front register wars and wartime in their everyday lives, particularly when military conflict remains removed from immediate perception, available only through media forms. Looking back over two centuries, Mary Favret locates the origins of modern wartime in the Napoleonic era and describes how global military opera.

ISBN: 9780691144078

Publisher. No.: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. ;7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Literature

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
;War and literature--;Romanticism.

Dewey Class. No.: 809.933581 FAV