Conceiving Strangeness in British First World War Writing

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-50105-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others, the book makes clear that the Great War was more than a European war.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buck, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The First World War and the Unhoming of Europe 2. Travelers on the Western Front: John Masefield, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, and Enid Bagnold 3. War's Colonial Aspect: Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster 4. Mapping Alterity Between Home and War Fronts: Rudyard Kipling, Enid Bagnold, and Rose Allatini 5. Bringing the War Home: The Imperial War Museum Coda Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Buck teaches English at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of H.D. and Freud: Bisexuality and a Feminine Discourse (1991) and editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992), as well as numerous articles on Modernism, women's war poetry, and the First World War.