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.

• Introduction: Two PhotographsFraming DeathWar Culture1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light BrigadeDocumenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s PhotographsReliving the Charge of the Light BrigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of MourningMemorializing the DeadThe Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological TraumaDiagnosing Trauma3. War GamesFantasy Wars: Dungeons and DragonsVirtual Warriors and Armchair GeneralsThe Pleasures of Conquest4. Trauma and the Soldier’s BodyThe Soldier’s Gendered BodyPTSD and Moral InjuryThe Politics of PTSD5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as BodyFait and Drone VisionLandscape and the Soldier’s BodyReinserting the Civilian Body into the FrameConclusion: Future War without Bodies

"War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand-and to challenge- the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation.  Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. - John Louis Lucaites (co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America) "Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality." - Rebecca Adelman (author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War) "You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body." - Roger Stahl (author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze)

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.

• Introduction: Two PhotographsFraming DeathWar Culture1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light BrigadeDocumenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s PhotographsReliving the Charge of the Light BrigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of MourningMemorializing the DeadThe Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological TraumaDiagnosing Trauma3. War GamesFantasy Wars: Dungeons and DragonsVirtual Warriors and Armchair GeneralsThe Pleasures of Conquest4. Trauma and the Soldier’s BodyThe Soldier’s Gendered BodyPTSD and Moral InjuryThe Politics of PTSD5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as BodyFait and Drone VisionLandscape and the Soldier’s BodyReinserting the Civilian Body into the FrameConclusion: Future War without Bodies

"War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand-and to challenge- the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation.  Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. - John Louis Lucaites (co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America) "Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality." - Rebecca Adelman (author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War) "You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body." - Roger Stahl (author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze)

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.

• Introduction: Two PhotographsFraming DeathWar Culture1. Sacrificial Bodies: Fenton, Tennyson and the Charge of the Light BrigadeDocumenting the Crimean War: Fenton’s PhotographsReliving the Charge of the Light BrigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade as Sacrifice2. The Soldier’s Body and Sites of MourningMemorializing the DeadThe Charge of the Light Brigade and Psychological TraumaDiagnosing Trauma3. War GamesFantasy Wars: Dungeons and DragonsVirtual Warriors and Armchair GeneralsThe Pleasures of Conquest4. Trauma and the Soldier’s BodyThe Soldier’s Gendered BodyPTSD and Moral InjuryThe Politics of PTSD5. Sophie Ristelhueber: Landscape as BodyFait and Drone VisionLandscape and the Soldier’s BodyReinserting the Civilian Body into the FrameConclusion: Future War without Bodies

"War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand-and to challenge- the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation.  Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. - John Louis Lucaites (co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America) "Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality." - Rebecca Adelman (author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War) "You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body." - Roger Stahl (author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze)