1st Edition

How We Are Changed by War A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom

By D.C. Gill Copyright 2010
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war’s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events.  How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the... Read more

Introduction 1. The Metes and Bounds of Narrative and Self 2. An Opportunity for Change: War and Ambition 3. Conversion 4. A Growing Estrangement 5. The Complexity of Spectatorship 6. Eye of the Storm 7. A Continuing Aftermath

Biography

Diana C. Gill is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Mississippi at Oxford.