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

Published Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1997

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Description vi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Introduction / Trudi Tate and Suzanne Raitt -- 1. Mrs Humphry Ward and the First Casualty of War / Helen Small -- 2. Payments and Face Values: Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front / Mary Conde -- 3. 'Contagious Ecstasy': May Sinclair's War Journals / Suzanne Raitt -- 4. 'A Great Purifier': The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 / Jane Potter -- 5. The Dissidence of Vernon Lee: Satan the Waster and the Will to Believe / Gillian Beer -- 6. The Grotesque and the Great War in to the Lighthouse / Tracy Hargreaves -- 7. 'It Goes on Happening': Frances Bellerby and the Great War / Nathalie Blondel -- 8. 'Still Some Obstinate Emotion Remains': Radclyffe Hall and the Meanings of Service / Claire Buck -- 9. Flies and Violets in Katherine Mansfield / Con Coroneos -- 10. Mary Butts, Mothers, and War / Mary Hamer -- 11. HD's War Neurotics / Trudi Tate -- 12. Gertrude Stein and War / Elizabeth Gregory Summary 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 the years that followed its inglorious end. Women's Fiction and the Great War challenges current thinking about women's responses to the First World War, questioning, even as it supports, the categorization of 'women's writing'. This volume considers some of the best known, and some of the least known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. The writing of some of the most famous modernist women writers - including Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and HD - is reassessed as war literature, and the work of long-neglected authors such as Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts is at last given serious attention Analysis English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war World War, 1914-1918 -- Women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-288) and index Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 -- Women. World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war. Author Raitt, Suzanne. Tate, Trudi. LC no. 97000931 ISBN 0198182783 (paperback) 019818283X

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