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Commemorative modernisms : women writers, death and the First World War /

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. It offers a reassessment of Anglo-American modernist literature through the lens of the Great War, specifically...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelly, Alice (Visiting assistant professor of history) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
English literature > 20th century > History and cricitism.
English literature > Women authors > History and cricitism.
Death in literature.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Mansfield, Katherine, > 1888-1923.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
War and literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary: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. It offers a reassessment of Anglo-American modernist literature through the lens of the Great War, specifically women's writing.
Physical Description:xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781474459907
1474459900