Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War Contributor(s): Kelly, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474459900 ISBN-13: 9781474459907 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.35 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women's literary representations of death
One of the key questions of modern literature was the problem of what to do with the war dead. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf, as well as visual and material culture, this book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism. Considering previously neglected writing by women in the war zones and at home, as well as the marginalised writings of well-known modernist authors, and drawing on international archival research, this book demonstrates the intertwining of modernist, war, and memorial culture, and broadens the canon of war writing. |