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.
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.
Alice Kelly is the Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage, Fighting France was published by EUP in December 2015 and she co-edited a Special Issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies on 'Katherine Mansfield and the First World War' (EUP, September 2014).
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: A Culture Surcharged with Death I. Death in Proximity: Wartime Commemorations 1. The Shock of the Dead: Deathbeds, Burial Rites and Cemetery Scenes in Nurses's Narratives 2. Uncomfortable Propaganda: Edith Wharton's Wartime Writings II. Grief at a Distance: Civilian Modernism 1. Mansfield Mobilised: Katherine Mansfield, The Great War and Military Discourse 2. The Civilian War Novel: H.D.'s Avant-Garde War Dead III. Modernist Death: Postwar Remembrance 1. Modernist Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield in the Postwar World Conclusion: Modernism's Ghosts Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: A Culture Surcharged with Death I. Death in Proximity: Wartime Commemorations 1. The Shock of the Dead: Deathbeds, Burial Rites and Cemetery Scenes in Nurses's Narratives 2. Uncomfortable Propaganda: Edith Wharton's Wartime Writings II. Grief at a Distance: Civilian Modernism 1. Mansfield Mobilised: Katherine Mansfield, The Great War and Military Discourse 2. The Civilian War Novel: H.D.'s Avant-Garde War Dead III. Modernist Death: Postwar Remembrance 1. Modernist Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield in the Postwar World Conclusion: Modernism's Ghosts Bibliography Index
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