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Women's Writing of the First World War Angela Smith

Women's Writing of the First World War By Angela Smith

Women's Writing of the First World War by Angela Smith


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From patriotic rhetoric to the gritty realism of the Front Line, this anthology juxtaposes women's writing of fact and fiction and aims to present a rounded picture of World War I as it was lived and fought by women across Britain.

Women's Writing of the First World War Summary

Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology by Angela Smith

A fully-rounded anthology of women's writing from World War One containing the known and unknown biographers and fiction writers of the period.. Explores the impact of the war on ideology, gender, genre and society and is a perfect complimentary text to Trudi Tate's Women Men and the Great War.. Aims to re-read the First World War as a female experience by drawing on the public and private sources of a wide range of different women.. Uses diaries, letters, articles and essays many of which have not been published.. Invaluable source document for scholars in many disciplines.

About Angela Smith

Angela Smith is a Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth

Table of Contents

Part One - The Beginning
1. The outbreak of war
2. Belgium
Part Two - Attitudes to the war
3. Patriotism
4. Pacificism
5. Conscription
6. Loves, separation and sexuality
Part Three - The experience of war
7. The battle front
8. The home front
9. Under fire
10. Medical care
11. Other war work
Part Four - The end
12. Armistice and aftermath

Additional information

GOR003368034
9780719050732
0719050731
Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology by Angela Smith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
20000323
352
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