Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center of Applied Humanities at the University of South Florida.Lagretta Tallent Lenker is Director of Graduate Certificates at University of South Florida.Merry G. Perry is Assistant Professor of English at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

• 1 I. Introduction2 Introduction: War and Words3 Part I: Arms and the Man: Voices from the Center4 Chapter 1: Stories of War and Peace: Sacred, Secular, and Holy5 Chapter 2: The Chalice and the Blade: Engendering War in Classical Literature6 Chapter 3: Violence, Terrorism, and War in Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays7 Chapter 4: Henry V at War: Christian King or Model Machiavel8 Chapter 5: 'Born for Opposition': Lord Bryon's Irresistible Tug-of-War9 Chapter 6: 'Civilized Barbarity': Melville and the Dark Paradoxes of Waging Modern War10 Chapter 7: Editha's War: 'How Glorious!'11 Chapter 8: Make War on War: A Shavian Conundrum12 Chapter 9: Words, War, and Peace: The Nature of Orwell's Pacifism13 Chapter 10: Understanding Hemingway's Multiple Voices of War: A Rhetorical Study14 Part II: Arms and the Other: Voices from the Margins15 Chapter 11: Seule la culture désintéressée': Virginia Woolf, Gender, and Culture in Time of War16 Chapter 12: Propaganda, Militarism, and the Home Front in Helen Zenna Smith's Not So Quiet . . . Stepdaughters of War17 Chapter 13: Who's Speaking? What Are They Saying? Women, Words, and War18 Chapter 14: War of Words: War 'with' and 'against' in African-American Literature19 Epilogue: Marlowe in tempore belli

This scrupulously gathered collection of essays pursues a striking concept. . . . How does literary genius, from Homer to Shakespeare to Tolstoi and Yeats, manage to lift the horror of war, savagery, and repression into the realm of tragic greatness? The editors have given us much to think out, in the classroom and in our private studies.