Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800–1918
Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a ‘strange friend’. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and reassessment between milit...
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| description | Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a ‘strange friend’. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and reassessment between military enemies—truces, treatment of the wounded, relationships with prisoners of war. It is concerned with the work done by declarations of fellow feeling, both to challenge and enable militarism. The book explores enemy intimacies in literature, philosophy, and life writings to ask questions pressing for our contemporary moment about the nature of amity, enmity, familiarity, and otherness. It ranges across British conflicts of the long nineteenth century, a period in which ideas about the uniqueness of combat experience coalesced with a European effort to secure a distinctive version of so-called civilised humanity. The sense that soldiers of the other side, bonded by experiences unavailable to civilians, were ‘just like us’ came into tension with views about the alterity of other nations and races. This book considers which enemies can become familiar and which are held as other, investigating dividing lines of nation, race, religion, and culture. Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings asks how far these affectively powerful encounters can shift individual and wider narratives about civilisation and humanitarianism. This book uncovers a rich cultural history of enemy intimacies to consider different orientations of cosmopolitanism and humanitarian fellow feeling, while recognising and explaining the ways in which full international kinship remains elusive. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1719922026-02-13T05:50:25Z Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800–1918 Furneaux, Holly Enemies Truces Prisoners of war International laws of war Soldiers Military nurses Empire Wounding Love thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Propaganda others the enemy as brutish, brutal, and lacking in humanity. By contrast, a wealth of literary and first-hand writings present switches in which the enemy becomes, as Wilfred Owen famously put it, a ‘strange friend’. This book focuses on moments of intimacy and reassessment between military enemies—truces, treatment of the wounded, relationships with prisoners of war. It is concerned with the work done by declarations of fellow feeling, both to challenge and enable militarism. The book explores enemy intimacies in literature, philosophy, and life writings to ask questions pressing for our contemporary moment about the nature of amity, enmity, familiarity, and otherness. It ranges across British conflicts of the long nineteenth century, a period in which ideas about the uniqueness of combat experience coalesced with a European effort to secure a distinctive version of so-called civilised humanity. The sense that soldiers of the other side, bonded by experiences unavailable to civilians, were ‘just like us’ came into tension with views about the alterity of other nations and races. This book considers which enemies can become familiar and which are held as other, investigating dividing lines of nation, race, religion, and culture. Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings asks how far these affectively powerful encounters can shift individual and wider narratives about civilisation and humanitarianism. This book uncovers a rich cultural history of enemy intimacies to consider different orientations of cosmopolitanism and humanitarian fellow feeling, while recognising and explaining the ways in which full international kinship remains elusive. 2026-02-13T05:50:24Z 2026-02-13T05:50:24Z 2026-02-12T12:54:53Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109938 9780198913542 9780198913566 9780198913573 9780198913559 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171992 mul open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109938/1/9780198913542.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/9780198913573.001.0001 10.1093/9780198913573.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 9780198913542 9780198913566 9780198913573 9780198913559 224 Oxford open access |
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