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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kelly, Alice (Visiting assistant professor of history) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]
Sujets:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans la littérature.
Death in literature
English literature
English literature > Women authors
War and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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

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