Modernism, History and the First World WarThis is a study of the relationship between modernist fiction, World War One and cultural history: how did modernist writers bear witness to the trauma of war? Drawing upon medical journals, newspapers, propaganda, military histories and other writings of the day, this text re-reads writers such as Woolf, HD, Ford, Faulkner, Kipling and Lawrence alongside the fiction and memoirs of soldiers and nurses who served in the war. |
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Acknowledgementspage | 1 |
War neurotics10 | 10 |
The sinking of the Lusitania17 | 17 |
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