Edited by Alex Houen, University Senior Lecturer, and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and Jan-Melissa Schramm, University Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Alex Houen is a University Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Faculty of English, and Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson (Oxford University Press, 2002), editor of States of War since 9/11: Terrorism, Sovereignty, and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2014), and co-editor (with Dominic Janes) of Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2014). He also co-edits (with Adam Piette) the international poetry journal Blackbox Manifold.

Jan-Melissa Schramm is a University Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature in the Faculty of English, and Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Censorship, Dramatic Form, and the Representation of the Sacred in Nineteenth-Century England (forthcoming), and co-editor of Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt (Macmillan, 2011).

Steve Attridge, independent scholar
Philip Biedler, University of Alabama
Matthew Campbell, University of York
Randall Fuller, University of Tulsa
Professor Helen Goethals, University of Toulouse
Christopher Herbert, Northwestern University
Alex Houen, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Tim Kendall, University of Exeter
Ian Patterson, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Adam Piette, University of Sheffield
Mark Rawlinson, University of Leicester
Jan-Melissa Schramm, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Philip Shaw, University of Leicester
Vincent Sherry, Washington University
David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen

"This rich collection ranges over two hundred years of predominantly British military history and war writing to consider which languages, symbols, and forms of sacrifice have operated to explain, rationalize, or critique war violence ... a clear picture emerges of the contradictions within imperial rhetoric and a stringent critique of British policy from within, even at times by those held to be enthusiasts of empire." - Holly Furneaux, Modern Philology