Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious or otherwise, for appropriate new forms of expression. Through the twin approaches of literary criticism and historical exploration, the book contributes an important new strand to the scholarship of women and war. Expands current notions of how modernisms should be defined. This volume compliments Angela K. Smith's 1999 publication, Women's writing of the First World War: An anthology (MUP).
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This text explores written representations of First World War experience by a variety of women. It investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today.
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Introduction
I NON-FICTION
1. The private pen
2. Private to public: The front line woman
3. Accidental modernisms: Hospital stories of the first world war
II FICTION
4. 'Living words': The woman's story
5. Not so quiet…women answer back
(a) A conflict of interests: May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven
(b) A conflict of ideas: Rose Macaulay's Non-Combatants and Others
(c)Art, Pacifism, Sexuality: Rose Allatini's Despised and Rejected
6. Living with words: The war according to HD
(a) 'I have broken the silence': Katherine Mansfield's War
(b) Rebecca West: Psychoanalyzing the home front
(c)The Happy Foreigner: Enid Bagnold and the post-war woman
Conclusion: The aspect of peace

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Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious or otherwise, for appropriate new forms of expression. Through the twin approaches of literary criticism and historical exploration, the book contributes an important new strand to the scholarship of women and war. Expands current notions of how modernisms should be defined. This volume compliments Angela K. Smith's 1999 publication, Women's writing of the First World War: An anthology (MUP).
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780719053016
Publisert
2000-12-28
Utgiver
Manchester University Press
Vekt
295 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Angela K. Smith is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth