This timely book traces ideas of pacifism in English literature, particularly poetry. Early chapters, drawing on religious and secular traditions, provide intellectual contexts. There follows a chronological analysis of literature which rejects war and celebrates peace, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
表中的内容
Acknowledgements Literature and Peace Studies From Minstrels to Martyrs PART ONE: PACIFIST PERSPECTIVES Sacred Texts Secular Texts, Humanist Pacifism PART TWO: A BRIEF PACIFIST HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY Medieval Pacifism Renaissance Pacifism Shakespeare’s Pacifist Voices Romantic Peace and War Pacifism in Prose and Films A Plague on both your Houses: Air Control, Civilian Casualties and Twentieth-century Poetry Conclusion: ‘Songs of such Exquisite Sweetness’ Bibliography Index
关于作者
R.S. WHITE is Professor of English at the University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on Shakespeare and on Romanticism, and is the author of
Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature (1996) and
Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s (2005).
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