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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (292010)8/31/2002 3:32:46 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
Flapjack,

Couldn't another reason be that, (the 1st World War was) possibly for the first time (for Europe, anyway), a major war was fought, where a majority of "common soldiers" were literate (and could record and express their horror)? This means that for the first time, war was not recorded and reported just by Officers or their peers (from upper class).

re:"The wholesale slaughter of World War I removed the adjective "noble" from the noun "warfare" forever."



To: Mr. Whist who wrote (292010)8/31/2002 4:02:18 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Was "Red Badge of Courage" an anomaly or was opinion changing already? This is a straight forward question as I'm not familiar with late 19th century novels attitudes towards war.

It may be that "noble" received it's death blow from WWI but it is hard to imagine from a U.S. citizen's standpoint that it was hanging from anything more than a bloody thread after the Civil War. Granted governments wanted people to still believe otherwise.


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