pt. 1. Return of the combatant. Anticipating commemoration : the post-World War I era as British poets imagined it / Brian Dillon
The war veteran in Tender is the night / William Blazek
Coming home defeated : soldiers and the transition from war to peace in post-World War II Japan / Beatrice Trefalt
"Battle dress to sports suit; overalls to frocks" : American and British veterans confront demobilization, 1945-51 / Mary Anne Schofield
"When all the wars are over" : the utopian impulses of Toni Morrison's postwar fiction / Jennifer Terry
pt. 2. Reconciliation. Searching for peace : John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida or Truth found too late / Janet Dawson
Romances of reconstruction : the postwar marriage plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest / Don Dingledine
The unpleasantness at the Chandrapore Club, and the Mayapore Club, and the Jummapur Club : Forster, Scott, and Stoppard and the end of empire / Laurie Kaplan
Community and harmony in Charlotte Eilenberg's post-Holocaust play The lucky ones / Claire Tylee
Vietnamese exile writers : displacement, identity, the past, and the future / Renny Christopher
pt. 3. Wars within peace. Seeing the war through cut-off triangles : H.D. and Gertrude Stein / Kathy J. Phillips
The forgotten brigade : foreign women writers and the end of the Spanish Civil War / Aránzazu Usandizaga
Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye : representations of war brides in Canadian fiction and drama by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Norah Harding, Margaret Hollingsworth, Joyce Marshall, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk, and Rachel Wyatt / Donna Coates
Ta(l)king war into peace : Marguerite Duras's La douleur, history and her stories / Camila Loew.