Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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Contents |
Before the lamps went out : the social and literary background of the Great War -- 'Is your best boy wearing khaki?' : publishing and propaganda -- 'Putting things in their right places' : the war in romance novels -- 'I alone am left to tell the tale' : memoirs by women on active service |
Summary |
"Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much maligned or, at the very least, ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and, above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but powerful agents of propaganda |
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Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and makes an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British -- Publishing
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Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Publishers and publishing
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English literature
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English literature -- Women authors
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Literature publishing
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War and literature
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Women
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Women and literature
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Women -- Intellectual life
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Languages & Literatures.
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English.
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English Literature.
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Literature - General.
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005020147 |
ISBN |
1423771028 |
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9781423771029 |
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9786610758524 |
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6610758522 |
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9780199279869 |
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0199279861 |
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9780199543212 |
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0199543216 |
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