Women's fiction and the Great War / edited by Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raitt, Suzanne.

Tate, Trudi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war.

World War, 1914-1918.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

World War, 1914-1918--Women.

Physical Description:

vi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, considers some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. Ranging from Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H.D. to Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts, the contributors challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the differences between women writers of the period, thus questioning the very categorization of "women's writing."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-288) and index.

ISBN:

0198182783

019818283X

OCLC:

36315818