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Boys in khaki, girls in print : women's literary responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 /
"Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much maligned or, at the very least,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much maligned or, at the very least, ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and, above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but powerful agents of propaganda Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and makes an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423771028 9781423771029 9786610758524 6610758522 9780199279869 0199279861 9780199543212 0199543216 |
| Acceso: | Single user license access. |