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Writing against war : literature, activism, and the British Peace Movement / Charles Andrews.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrews, Charles, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Cultural expressions of World War II.
- Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Peace movements in literature.
- Peace movements--Great Britain--20th century.
- Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Writing against War , Charles Andrews integrates literary analysis and peace studies to create innovative new ways to view experimental British fiction in the interwar period. The cataclysm of the First World War gave rise to the British Peace Movement, a spectrum of pacifist, internationalist, and antiwar organizations and individuals.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Throwing sand"
- Pledging peace in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza
- Challenging death in Storm Jameson's Mirror in darkness trilogy
- Narrating veteran-pacifism in Siegfried Sassoon's memoirs of George Sherston
- Tending the ruins in Rose Macaulay's And no man's wit
- Thinking as fighting in Virginia Woolf's The years and Three guineas
- Coda: Perceiving the peace movement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3500-0
- OCLC:
- 982244837
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