During wartime, paranoia, gossip, and rumor become accepted forms
of behavior and dominant literary tropes. The Peculiar Sanity of
War examines the impact of war hysteria on definitions of sanity
and on standards of behavior during World War I. Drawing upon
Joseph Conrad's comprehensive understanding of war's impact on
soldiers and civilians alike, and extending Michel Foucault's
construction of madness and reason, Kingsbury expands the
definition of war neurosis to include peculiar sanity at home as
well as on the front lines. While other investigations of World War
I consider shell shock to be the only definable war madness,
Kingsbury is the first to build a powerful argument around the
insanity of the home front's vilification of the enemy. Ultimately,
Kingsbury's study establishes peculiar sanity, among civilians and
soldiers, as an inevitable response to war's madness.The Peculiar
Sanity of War begins by locating the roots of war mania in
Edwardian hypocrisy, then moves on to examine the way propaganda
operates in nontraditional texts, such as housekeeping guides, and
in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, H. G. Wells,
Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Rudyard Kipling,
Virginia Woolf, and H. D. Celia Kingsbury's eloquent and moving
book . . . brings together war and madness in unexpected ways.
Beginning with a phrase from Joseph Conrad, she diagnoses the
condition of a culture gone awry, a 'peculiar sanity.' . . . --from
Laurence Davies's foreword
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