Women's Writing of the First World War: Historical Women's Writing
Editat de Emma Liggins, Elizabeth Nolanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2020
This interdisciplinary volume examines women’s representations of wartime experience across a wide range of genres, including modernist fiction, ghost stories, utopia, poetry, life-writing and journalism. Contributors provide fresh perspectives on women’s written responses to the conflict, exploring women’s war work, constructions of femininity and the maternal in wartime, and the relationship between feminism, suffrage and pacifism. The volume reinforces the importance of the retrieval of women’s wartime experience, urging us to rethink what we choose to commemorate and widening the presence of women in the expanding canon of war writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367587109
ISBN-10: 0367587106
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Historical Women's Writing
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367587106
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Historical Women's Writing
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
Introduction 1. Outsider Positions: Negotiating Gender, Nationality and Memory in the War Writing of Enid Bagnold 2. Queering the Home Front: Subversive Temporalities and Sexualities in Rose Allatini’s Despised and Rejected and Bryher’s Two Selves 3. Women’s Poetry in First World War Anthologies and Two Collections of 1916 4. "The Cataclysm We All Remember": Haunting and Spectral Trauma in the First World War Supernatural Stories of H. D. Everett 5. "I had a Baby, I Mean I didn’t, in an Air Raid": War and Stillbirth in H. D.’s Asphodel 6. The Responsibility of Women: Women’s Anti-War Writing in the Press, 1914–16 7. A Lack of Engagement? The Containment of War in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Forerunner 8. Women and the "War Machine" in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes
Notă biografică
Emma Liggins is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Odd Women? Spinsters, Widows and Lesbians in British Women’s Fiction, 1850s-1930s (2014) and a chapter on May Sinclair and women’s war work in May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds, eds. Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery (2016).
Elizabeth Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her publications include ‘American Women’s Writing of the First World War’ in Literature Compass (2007), ‘The Awakening as Literary Innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the Evolution of Genre’ in The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008) and ‘The Woman’s Novel Beyond Sentimentalism’ in The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011).
Elizabeth Nolan is a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her publications include ‘American Women’s Writing of the First World War’ in Literature Compass (2007), ‘The Awakening as Literary Innovation: Chopin, Maupassant and the Evolution of Genre’ in The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin (2008) and ‘The Woman’s Novel Beyond Sentimentalism’ in The Cambridge History of the American Novel (2011).
Descriere
This book examines women’s representations of wartime experience, both on the home front and in the danger zones across a wide range of genres. It includes chapters on modernist fiction, ghost stories, poetry, utopias, journalism and life-writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Writing.