1st Edition
Making Sense of Violence Intellectuals, Writers, and Modern Warfare
Introduction: Making sense of modern warfare Violence
Matthew D’Auria
1. Memory in warfare: history as a destituent narrative
Adriano Vinale
2. Progress, decline and redemption: understanding war and imagining Europe, 1870s–1890s
Matthew D’Auria
3. Culture, resistance and violence: guarding the Habsburg Ostgrenze with Montenegro in 1914
Cathie Carmichael
4. Sender, those who have not returned: Carlo Salsa and his ‘Trenches’
Lucio Valent
5. A war of words: the cultural meanings of the First World War in Britain and Germany
Mark Hewitson
6. The Tannenberg myth in history and literature, 1914–1945
Jan Vermeiren
7. Resistance politics of non-violence: Jean Paulhan’s ’Fautrier the Enraged’ (1943)
Caroline Perret
8. The experience and the idea of war in the writings of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras
Tristana Dini
9. Violence and resistance: Joyce Lussu’s minority revolution in trans-lation
Sara Sermini
Biography
Matthew D’Auria is an intellectual historian working at the University of East Anglia, UK. His main research interest lies in the relationship between images of the nation and discourses about Europe in the modern age.
Mark Hewitson is a Professor of German History and Politics at University College London, UK. His research interests lie principally in the intellectual, cultural, and political history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and Europe.
