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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelly, Alice (Visiting assistant professor of history) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]
Temas:
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