Commemorative modernisms : women writers, death and the First World War /
This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
[2020]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A Culture Surcharged with Death
- Part One Death in Proximity: Wartime Commemorations
- 1 The Shock of the Dead: Deathbeds, Burial Rites and Cemetery Scenes in Nurses' Narratives
- 2 Uncomfortable Propaganda: Edith Wharton's Wartime Writings
- Part Two Grief at a Distance: Civilian Modernisms
- 3 Mansfield Mobilised: Katherine Mansfield, the Great War and Military Discourse
- 4 The Civilian War Novel: H.D.'s Avant-Garde War Dead
- Part Three Modernist Death: Postwar Remembrance
- 5 Modernist Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield in the Postwar World
- Conclusion: Modernism's Ghosts
- Bibliography
- Index