paul fussell

Paul Fussell (born 1924, Pasadena, California) is a cultural historian, professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, World War II, and social class. Fussell was called up in 1943, and is a combat infantry veteran of the European campaign: he was wounded while fighting in France as a second lieutenant. An early influence was H. L. Mencken, but he shed Mencken as a mentor when faced with the wartime experience. He has cultivated an unapologetically difficult personal and writing style.

Works

The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations (1959)
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965)
The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (1965)
Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England (1966)
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) editor with Geoffrey Tillotson and Marshall Waingrow
Samuel Johnson: The Life of Writing (1971)
English Augustan Poetry (1972)
The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
The Ordeal of Alfred M. Hale: The Memoirs of a Soldier Servant (1975) editor
Abroad: British Literary Travelling Between the Wars (1980)
Sassoon's Long Journey (1983) editor, from The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Class, A Guide Through the American Status System (1983)
Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA (1984)
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) editor
Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988)
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989)
BAD: or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
The Bloody Game: An Anthology of Modern War (1991)
The Norton Book of Modern War (1991) editor
The Anti-Egotist. Kingsley Amis: Man of Letters (1994)
Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic (1996) autobiography
Uniforms : Why We Are What We Wear (2002)
The Boys Crusade : The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (2004)

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