Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.
Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.
MARTIN A. DANAHAY is a professor of English at Brock University in Canada. He is the author of Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity and A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Britain.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Two Photographs Framing Death War Culture 1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade Documenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s Photographs Reliving the Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice 2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of Mourning Memorializing the Dead The Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological Trauma Diagnosing Trauma 3. War Games Fantasy Wars: Dungeons and Dragons Virtual Warriors and Armchair Generals The Pleasures of Conquest 4. Trauma and the Soldier’s Body The Soldier’s Gendered Body PTSD and Moral Injury The Politics of PTSD 5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as Body Fait and Drone Vision Landscape and the Soldier’s Body Reinserting the Civilian Body into the Frame Conclusion: Future War without Bodies
Introduction: Two Photographs Framing Death War Culture 1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light Brigade Documenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s Photographs Reliving the Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice 2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of Mourning Memorializing the Dead The Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological Trauma Diagnosing Trauma 3. War Games Fantasy Wars: Dungeons and Dragons Virtual Warriors and Armchair Generals The Pleasures of Conquest 4. Trauma and the Soldier’s Body The Soldier’s Gendered Body PTSD and Moral Injury The Politics of PTSD 5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as Body Fait and Drone Vision Landscape and the Soldier’s Body Reinserting the Civilian Body into the Frame Conclusion: Future War without Bodies
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