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Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it
is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available.
This five-volume reset edition aims to redress this balance, making
available an extensive collection of newly-edited short stories,
novels and plays from 1914-19.
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the
Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from
scholars working in literature, music, art history and military
history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well
as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the
combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the
war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in
the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the
silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into
the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary
and are written in a clear, accessible style. -- .
"A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection
... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and
women." Pat Barker This is an anthology of short stories of World
War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and
Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account
for half the volume. The stories are by turn poignant, violent,
harsh, tender and desolating. -- .
Drawing upon medical journals, newspapers, propaganda, military
histories, and other writings of the day, Modernism, History and
the First World War reads such writers as Woolf, HD, Ford,
Faulkner, Kipling, and Lawrence alongside fiction and memoirs of
soldiers and nurses who served in the war. This ground breaking
blend of cultural history and close readings shows how modernism
after 1914 emerges as a strange but important form of war writing,
and was profoundly engaged with its own troubled history. Trudi
Tate s a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and author of
The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice (2013).
'Essential reading for anyone interested in modernist fiction and
war writing.'-Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University. 'This superb
book opened up literary studies of the conflict to a range of
issues and approaches that have since become crucial to the
field'-Santanu Das, King's College London.
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious
struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British,
French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be
reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists,
recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short
history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel
representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She
tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual
soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war
tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a
retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the
equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War
was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards,
and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through
it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the
bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of
Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders,
conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian
alliance.
The essays in this volume on women's writing of the First World War
are written from an explicitly theoretical and academic feminist
perspective. The contributors - including a number of leading
female academics - challenge current thinking about women's
responses to the First World War and explore the differences
between women writers of the period, thus questioning the very
categorization of `women's writing'. The Great War stimulated a
sudden growth in the novel industry. Well known writers such as Mrs
Humphrey Ward and Edith Wharton found themselves jostled by authors
like Ruby M. Ayres, Kate Finzi, and Olive Dent. The trauma of the
war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published
in the years that followed its inglorious end. This volume
considers some of the best known, and some of the least known,
women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. The writing of
some of the most famous 'modernist' women writers - including
Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H. D. - is reassessed as
war literature, and the work of long-neglected authors such as
Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts is given serious
attention for the first time.
The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, consider some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow.
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious
struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British,
French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be
reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists,
recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short
history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel
representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She
tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual
soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war
tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a
retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the
equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War
was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards,
and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through
it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the
bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of
Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders,
conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian
alliance.
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