
Women's Writing on the First World War
Oxford University Press
Published on 7. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-0-19-812281-4 (ISBN)
Description
The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very different from that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing from across the world, covering every genre of writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, reportage, and essays, as well as polemical texts in favour of, or in opposition to, the hostilities, offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life as they saw it. This anthology demonstrates how the Great War acted as a catalyst for women writers, enabling them to find a public voice and to assert their own attitude to social and moral issues.
Reviews / Votes
ground-breaking anthology ... wide array of perspectives on WW1, from both sides of the fighting * B. Adler, Choice * a very fine anthology * Times Literary Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812281-4 (9780198122814)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Agnes Cardinal is Lecturer in Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury; Dorothy Goldman is an independent writer and researcher; Judith Hattaway is Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury
Editor
, University of Kent at Canterbury
, Independent writer and researcher
, University of Kent at Canterbury
Content
PART I: THE WAR BEGINS; PART II: THE WAR OBSERVED; PART III: THE WAR COMES HOME; PART IV: TOWARDS THE FRONT; PART V: WRITING THE WAR; PART VI: RETROSPECT