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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Potter, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Literature and the war.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, British > Publishing.
Literature publishing > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women > Great Britain > Intellectual life > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Women > Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature > Édition > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Femmes > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Publishers and publishing
English literature
English literature > Women authors
Literature publishing
War and literature
Women
Women and literature
Women > Intellectual life
Languages & Literatures.
English.
English Literature.
Literature - General.
Great Britain
Personal narratives > British
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Before the lamps went out : the social and literary background of the Great War
  • 'Is your best boy wearing khaki?' : publishing and propaganda
  • 'Putting things in their right places' : the war in romance novels
  • 'I alone am left to tell the tale' : memoirs by women on active service.

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