The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered

This definitive volume will alter our understanding of the literature of World War I. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term "war literature" and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.

Patrick J. Quinn is Professor of English Literature at University College, Northampton.

Steven Trout is Associate Professor of English at Fort Hays State Universtity.

Acknowledgements

ix

List of Contributors

xi

Introduction

1

(8)

Part I Textuality and War

Beyond Fiction? The Example of Winged Warfare (1918)

9

(15)

Chris Hopkins

Literary Images of Vicarious Warfare: British Newspapers and the Origin of the First World War, 1899--1914

24

(13)

Glenn R. Wilkinson

Part II Beyond the Trenches

Encoded Enclosures: the Wartime Novels of Stella Benson

37

(18)

Debra Rae Cohen

The Self in Conflict: May Sinclair and the Great War

55

(12)

Terry Phillips

`Lives Mocked at by Chance': Contradictory Impulses in Women's Poetry of the Great War

67

(10)

Deborah Tyler-Bennett

`The Huge Gun with Its One Blind Eye': Scale and the War Poetry and Writings of Harriet Monroe

77

(16)

Allesandria Polizzi

Part III Nationality and Response

French Women Poets Respond to the Great War

93

(20)

Nancy Sloan Goldberg

Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women's Fictional Responses to the Great War

113

(30)

Donna Coates

`Dear, Tender-Hearted, Uncomprehending America': Dorothy Canfield Fisher's and Edith Wharton's Fictional Responses to the First World War

143

(16)

Mary R. Ryder

Part IV Modernists at War

Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and the First World War

159

(13)

Milton A. Cohen

Artistry and Primitivism in The Enormous Room

172

(17)

William Blazek

Part V Revising the War Poets

Mother's Boy and Stationmaster's Son: the Problem of Class in the Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen

189

(16)

John Gibson

The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen: a Dissenting Reappraisal

205

(14)

Malcolm Pittock

`Thoughts That You've Gagged All Day': Siegfried Sassoon, W. H. R. Rivers and `[The] Repression of War Experience'

219

(11)

Patrick Campbell

Siegfried Sassoon: the Legacy of the Great War

230

(9)

Patrick J. Quinn

Index

239

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The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered Beyond Modern Memory

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