2024/12/19 by Lieven Raymaekers, Bart Philipsen · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Military History and Strategy #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/17526272.2024.2436764
openalex publication_date 2024/12/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Through a tentative exploration of the prolific yet often unacknowledged corpus of narratives depicting war at sea, this special issue of the Journal of War & Culture Studies seeks to uncover an aesthetics of naval war literature. This introduction to the special issue serves as a preliminary exploration of the parameters of two research fields that have recently gained traction: the blue humanities, and war and culture studies. It offers a brief overview of the fields’ main habits of thinking and examines how recalibrating scholarly attention on naval war literature offers a way to entangle both fields.