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This text explores written representations of First World War experience by a variety of women. It investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today.

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Introduction
I NON-FICTION
1. The private pen
2. Private to public: The front line woman
3. Accidental modernisms: Hospital stories of the first world war
II FICTION
4. 'Living words': The woman's story
5. Not so quiet…women answer back
(a) A conflict of interests: May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven
(b) A conflict of ideas: Rose Macaulay's Non-Combatants and Others
(c)Art, Pacifism, Sexuality: Rose Allatini's Despised and Rejected
6. Living with words: The war according to HD
(a) 'I have broken the silence': Katherine Mansfield's War
(b) Rebecca West: Psychoanalyzing the home front
(c)The Happy Foreigner: Enid Bagnold and the post-war woman
Conclusion: The aspect of peace

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/28/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719053016, 978-0719053016
      ISBN10: 0719053013

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text explores written representations of First World War experience by a variety of women. It investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      I NON-FICTION
      1. The private pen
      2. Private to public: The front line woman
      3. Accidental modernisms: Hospital stories of the first world war
      II FICTION
      4. 'Living words': The woman's story
      5. Not so quiet…women answer back
      (a) A conflict of interests: May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven
      (b) A conflict of ideas: Rose Macaulay's Non-Combatants and Others
      (c)Art, Pacifism, Sexuality: Rose Allatini's Despised and Rejected
      6. Living with words: The war according to HD
      (a) 'I have broken the silence': Katherine Mansfield's War
      (b) Rebecca West: Psychoanalyzing the home front
      (c)The Happy Foreigner: Enid Bagnold and the post-war woman
      Conclusion: The aspect of peace

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