Andrew Frayn

Writing disenchantment (eBook, ePUB)

British First World War prose, 1914-30

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It has become axiomatic that First World War literature was disenchanted, or disillusioned, and returning combatants were unable to process or communicate that experience. In Writing disenchantment, Andrew Frayn argues that this was not just about the war: non-combatants were just as disenchanted as those who fought, and writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf produced some of the sharpest criticisms. Its language already existed in contemporary sociological and historical accounts of the problems of mass culture and the modern city, whose structures contained the conflict and were strengthened during it. Archival material, sales data and reviews are used to chart disenchantment in a wide range of early twentieth-century war literature from novels about fears of invasion and pacifism, through the modernist novels of the 1920s to its dominance in the War Books Boom of 1928-30. This book will appeal to scholars and students of English literature, social and cultural history, and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526103185
• Artikelnr.: 48795392

Autorenporträt

Andrew Frayn is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Patriotism
propaganda and pacifism
1914-18 2. Hope to Disenchantment
1919-22 3. Modernism
conflict and the Home Front
1922-27 4. Sagas and series
1924-28 5. Popular disenchantment: the war books boom
1928-30 Conclusion Index