BOOKS
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: women's literary responses to the Great War, 1914-1918 (2005) by
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 leastignored. 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 aboveall, 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 a 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 is an important new contribution to thestudy of the literature of the Great War.
Call Number: PR478.W65 P68 2005 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 9780199279869
British Culture and the First World War (2002) by
A brief but comprehensive survey of British society and culture during the First World War. George Robb concentrates not on military campaigns and battle strategies, but on the lives of ordinary Britons - how they responded to and were affected by the war, how they attempted to understand the conflict and to explain it to others, and how they have dealt with the war's legacies in the years since. Robb synthesizes the most recent work on the social and cultural history of the war, as well asreclaiming many forgotten popular cultural sources such as films, cartoons, advertisements and pulp novels.
Call Number: DA577 .R63 2002 Colby Miller 3rd Floor Bookstacks 6 (S6)ISBN: 0333715713
Culture in Camouflage: war, empire, and modern British literature (2009) by
Culture in Camouflage does for Second World War writing what Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory did for the First World War. It describes how the British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world wars by freely cannibalizing art and literature in times of crisis: when they lacked the technology, funds or manpower they used war culture to project their strategic fantasies ofa war of space and movement waged by imperial air power or mechanized warfare. The book explores what it was like for writers to try and find their own points of view on the action in the face of both the shatteringviolence and alienation of total war and an overpowering official war culture.
Call Number: PR478.W37 D44 2009 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 9780199239887
D. H. Lawrence's Nightmare: the writer and his circle in the years of the Great War (1978) by Call Number: PR6023.A93 Z623547 Colby Annex Bookstacks: How to RequestISBN: 0465016413
Fighting Songs and Warring Words: popular lyrics of two world wars (1990) by
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Call Number: 0415031842ISBN: 0415031842
Front Lines of Modernism: remapping the Great War in British fiction (2011) by
This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.
Call Number: PR888.W65 L37 2011 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 9780230108080The Great War and women's consciousness : images of militarism and womanhood in women's writings, 1914-64 (1990) by Tylee (U. of Malaga) shows that there does exist an imaginative memory of The Great War that is distinctively women's. She deals with journalism and women war-correspondents, with propaganda and the construction of consciousness, with censorship, pacifism, women's autobiographies and fictionalized w
Call Number: PR116 .T94 1990 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 0877452636
The great war of words : British, American, and Canadian propaganda and fiction, 1914-1933 (1987) by
In September 1914, twenty-five of Britain's most distinguishedauthors met with the war propaganda bureau to discuss how they coulddefend civilization against the savagery of the invading'Huns'. In The Great War of Words Peter Buitenhuistells the hitherto unknown story of the secret collaboration betweenthe government and leading writers of the time, including H.G. Wells,John Buchan and John Galsworthy. The book also chronicles theirdisillusionment with the Allied propaganda machine after the war -- andhow this changed the course of literary history in the 20thcentury.
Call Number: D639.P6 B84 1987 Colby Miller 3rd Floor Bookstacks 6 (S6)ISBN: 0774802707
The literature of the Great War reconsidered : beyond modern memory (2001) by
This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.
Call Number: PN771 .L583 2001 Colby Miller 1st Floor Bookstacks 3 (S3)ISBN: 0333764595
Manipulating masculinity : war and gender in modern British and American literature (2006) by
In this study, Kathy Janette Phillips uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and the Iraq wars to argue that labelling broadly human traits 'feminine' helps societies manipulate men to war. Phillips also shows that damning pleasure fuels wars by encouraging the displacement of sexuality into violence.
Call Number: PR478.W37 P48 2006 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 1403971951
Merchants of hope : British middlebrow writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 by
This study examines fictional recreations of the First World War in the interwar years and the phenomenal success of one play, Sheriff's Journey's End. The author challenges the notion of a 'modern' memory generated by the First World War by arguing that middlebrow texts formulated a set of images and ideas that eclipsed the wartime upheaval and imputed conservative 'meanings' to the collective memory.
Call Number: PR478.W65 B73 1993 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 0854967060
Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War (2003) by
Sarah Cole examines the rich literary and cultural history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. Cole approaches this complex and neglected topic from many perspectives - as a reflection of the exceptional social power wielded by the institutions that housed and structured male bonds; as a matter of closeted and thwarted homoerotics; as part of the story of the First World War. Cole shows that the terrain of masculine fellowship provides an important context for understanding key literary features of the modernist period. She foregrounds such crucial themes as the over-determined relations between imperial wanderers in Conrad's tales, the broken friendships that permeate Forster's fictions, Lawrence's desperate urge to make culture out of blood brotherhood and the intense bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have helped to define a particular spirit and voice within the literary canon.
Call Number: PR830.W65 C65 2003 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 0521819237
Picture this : World War I posters and visual culture (2010) by
The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass-produced, full-color, large-format war posters were both a sign and an instrument of this historic shift in warfare. War posters celebrated, in both their form and content, the modernity of the conflict. They also reached an enormous international audience through their prominent display and continual reproduction in pamphlets and magazines in every combatant nation, uniting diverse populations as viewers of the same image and bringing them closer, in an imaginary and powerful way, to the war. Most war posters were aimed particularly at civilian populations. Posters nationalized, mobilized, and modernized those populations, thereby influencing how they viewed themselves and their activities. The home-front life--factory work, agricultural work, domestic work, the consumption and conservation of goods, as well as various forms of leisure--became, through the viewing of posters, emblematic of national identity and of each citizen's place within the collective effort to win the war. Essays by Jay Winter, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Jennifer D. Keene, and others reveal the centrality of visual media, particularly the poster, within the specific national contexts of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States during World War I. Ultimately, posters were not merely representations of popular understanding of the war, but instruments influencing the reach, meaning, and memory of the war in subtle and pervasive ways.
Call Number: D522.25 .P53 2009 Colby Miller 3rd Floor Bookstacks 6 (S6)ISBN: 9780803226104
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: war, civilization, modernity (2004) by
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace--and, in E. M. Forster's words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"-- the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future at a moment when democracy's triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury-- John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolfs'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others--and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 0231134444
War trauma and English modernism: T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence by
This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.
Call Number: PR888.W65 K76 2011 Colby Miller Mid-Level Bookstacks 2 (S2)ISBN: 9780230291577
