Women's fiction and the Great War /

The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry. Well known writers such as Mrs Humphry 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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Raitt, Suzanne, Tate, Trudi
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:	English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Literature and the war. Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century. English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 > Women.

Table of Contents:

Mrs. Humphrey Ward and the first casualty of war / Helen Small
Payments and face values: Edith Wharton's A son at the front / Mary Condé
'Contagious ecstasy': May Sinclair's war journals / Suzanne Raitt
'A great purifier': the Great War in women's romances and memoirs 1914-1918 / Jane Potter
Dissidence of Vernon Lee: Satan the waster and the will to believe / Gillian Beer
Grotesque and the Great War in To the lighthouse / Tracy Hargreaves
'It goes on happening': Frances Bellerby and the Great War / Nathalie Blondel
'Still some obstinate emotion remains': Radclyffe Hall and the meanings of service / Claire Buck
Flies and violets in Katherine Mansfield / Con Coroneos
Mary Butts, mothers, and war / Mary Hamer
HD's war neurotics / Trudi Tate
Gertrude Stein and war / Elizabeth Gregory.