Author · 22 March 1924 – 23 May 2012

Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell, Jr. was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America's class system. - Wikipedia

Works

The Great War and modern memory

The Great War and modern memory

The boys' crusade

The boys' crusade

The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism

The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism

BAD, or, The dumbing of America

BAD, or, The dumbing of America

Poetic meter and poetic form

Poetic meter and poetic form

Samuel Johnson and the life of writing.

Samuel Johnson and the life of writing.

Theory of prosody in eighteenth-century England.

Theory of prosody in eighteenth-century England.

All 37 works

On the persistence of pastoral

On the persistence of pastoral

Thank God for the Atom Bomb

Thank God for the Atom Bomb

Thank God for the atom bomb, and other essays

Thank God for the atom bomb, and other essays

The boy scout handbook and other observations

The boy scout handbook and other observations

The bloody game

The bloody game

Poetic meter and poetic form

Poetic meter and poetic form

The nature of meter

The nature of meter

Structural principles: the example of the sonnet

Structural principles: the example of the sonnet

The Norton book of travel

The Norton book of travel

English Augustan poetry.

English Augustan poetry.

Writing in wartime

Writing in wartime

Studies in eighteenth-century English prosodic theory

Studies in eighteenth-century English prosodic theory

The anti-egotist

The anti-egotist

Great War & Wartime

Great War & Wartime

The Holbrook report, eight months later

The Holbrook report, eight months later

Killing in Verse and Prose and Other Essays

Killing in Verse and Prose and Other Essays

The New Fussell War Set

The New Fussell War Set

Poetic Forms and the Lyric Subject

Poetic Forms and the Lyric Subject

The historical dimension

The historical dimension

The Norton book of modern war

The Norton book of modern war

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