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Author Potter, Jane

Title Boys in khaki, girls in print : women's literary responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 / Jane Potter
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs.
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
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
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Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British -- Publishing
Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Great Britain
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Publishers and publishing
English literature
English literature -- Women authors
Literature publishing
War and literature
Women
Women and literature
Women -- Intellectual life
Languages & Literatures.
English.
English Literature.
Literature - General.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005020147
ISBN 1423771028
9781423771029
9786610758524
6610758522
9780199279869
0199279861
9780199543212
0199543216