Literature and the war
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To the halls of the Montezumas
The other side of grief
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and the Inns of Court revels
Women's autobiography
The mourner's song
Nationalism, imperialism, and identity in late Victorian culture
The story of the Star-spangled banner
Women writers of the First World War
Jack Aubrey commands
Remembering Biafra
Wilfred Owen
Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Boys in khaki, girls in print
Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms
Memories of a lost war
Recasting
The presence of the past
So lovely a country will never perish
Siegfried Sassoon
The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner (Cornerstones of Freedom
Irish Literature and the First World War
Helen of Troy and her shameless phantom
Chaucer's Boccaccio
Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War view
The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction
Sexuality and war
Poets of World War I
Short stories
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond
Literary aftershocks
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