What is included with this book?
List of Figures | p. ix |
Preface | p. xii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
Introduction: War as Revelation, 1865-2000 | p. 1 |
The Supremacy of Mind: 1450-1740 | p. 27 |
Suffering, Death, and Revelation in Early Modern Culture | p. 29 |
The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs | p. 35 |
The conversion narratives of Christian soldiers | p. 35 |
Secular military memoirs | p. 56 |
Why War Revealed Nothing | p. 95 |
Bodies should not think | p. 96 |
Conclusions | p. 124 |
The Revolt of the Body: 1740-1865 | p. 127 |
Bodies Begin to Think | p. 129 |
The War of Austrian Succession and La Mettrie's L'Homme-machine | p. 129 |
Sensationism and sensibility | p. 135 |
The novel of sensibility, the Bildungsroman, and the ideals of Erlebnis and Bildung | p. 145 |
Romanticism, nature, and the sublime | p. 150 |
The Rise of the Common Soldier | p. 160 |
Common soldiers begin to think | p. 160 |
Common soldiers begin to write | p. 190 |
Conclusions: War and Bildung | p. 193 |
The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War | p. 197 |
Sentimentalizing and Romanticizing war | p. 199 |
The key experiences of war | p. 213 |
Flesh-witnessing: Those who weren't there cannot understand | p. 231 |
The master narratives of late modern military experience | p. 240 |
Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 | p. 299 |
Notes | p. 307 |
Works Cited | p. 347 |
Index | p. 373 |
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