Women's Fiction and the Great War

by Suzanne Raitt (Editor), Trudi Tate (Editor)

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198182788
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/26/1997
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

University of Southampton

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"Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and up."—Choice

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