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Women writers and the Great War / Dorothy Goldman with Jane Gledhill and Judith Hattaway.
Author
Goldman, Dorothy
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1995.
Description
xiv, 156 pages ; 25 cm.
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PR478.W65 G65 1995
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Subject(s)
English literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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World War, 1914-1918
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Great Britain
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Literature and the war
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Women and literature
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English-speaking countries
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History
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20th century
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World War, 1914-1918
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United States
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Literature and the war
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American literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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American literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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English literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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World War, 1914-1918
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Women
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Gledhill, Jane
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Hattaway, Judith
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Series
Twayne's literature & society series ; no. 7.
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Twayne's literature & society series ; no. 7
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Summary note
Such esteemed writers as Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf can be counted among the women writing about World War I. But more ordinary writers were also compelled to write about the war, revisiting their often extraordinary wartime experiences - as nurses, ambulance drivers, munitions workers, and more. In Women Writers and the Great War, Dorothy Goldman, Jane Gledhill, and Judith Hattaway explore the literary, social, and psychological themes that emerge from the writings on the war by women from all walks of life. Diaries, letters, newspaper and magazine pieces, short stories, and novels document their powerful and complex response to what remains one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history. The authors of Women Writers and the Great War argue that it is to a large extent women's exclusion from the trenches that has resulted in their exclusion from the canon of war literature. Even to this day, scant critical attention has been paid to the wide range of women's writing on the war. What can be found there are not only valuable eye-witness accounts of history but literary history in the making. Examining the work of many women writers from Great Britain and the United States, the authors look at the way in which they devised an appropriate literary form, the extent to which their identity as women shaped the content and style of their work, the extent to which that work does - and does not - fit into the literary history of the period, and whether these women can be said to share a common literary voice.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148) and index.
Contents
The war and women
The dilemma of subject
Genre and appropriated form
Canon and tradition
A change of voice
Conclusion.
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ISBN
0805788581
9780805788587
080574536X
9780805745368
LCCN
94024561
OCLC
31173912
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