(Mis)uses of war: Reading Willa Cather's One of Ours with William James' "The Moral Equivalent of War"

American Literary Realism

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-111

  Montgomery, Travis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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EID: 61049117593     PISSN: 00029823     EISSN: 19405103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/alr.0.0010     Document Type: Review

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1. Gay Wilson Allen, William James: A Biography (New York: Viking, 1967), p. 451.
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3. Merrill Maguire Skaggs, "William James and the Walls for Unfurnished Fictions," Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter, 46, i (2002), 8.
4. Skaggs, "Willa Cather's Radical Empiricism," Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter, 47, i (2003), 15-19;
5. Skaggs, "Death Comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather's Varieties of Religious Experience," Literature and Belief 22 (2002), 101-21.
6. Skaggs, "William James," p. 8.
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10. Richard C. Harris "Historical Essay," which appears in One of Ours, ed. Frederick M. Link and Kari A. Ronning (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2006), p. 666.
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12. Merrill Maguire Skaggs, After the World Broke in Two: The Later Novels of Willa Cather (Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1990), p. 40.
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14. William James, "The Moral Equivalent of War," McClure's, 35 (August 1910), 467.
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23. Trout "From 'The Namesake' to One of Ours: Willa Cather on War," American Literary Realism, 37 (Winter 2006), 138.
24. Patricia Lee Yongue, "For Better and for Worse: At Home and at War in One of Ours," in Willa Cather: Family, Community, and History, ed. John Murphy et al. (Provo: Brigham Young Univ., 1990), p. 149.
25. In Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989), p. 310
26. Hew Strachan, The First World War (New York: Viking, 2004), p. 337.