The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered: Beyond Modern Memory

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TEXTUALITY AND WAR Beyond Fiction? The Example of Winged Warfare; C.Hopkins Literary Images of Vicarious Warfare: British Newspapers and the Origin of the First World War, 1899-1914; C.R.Wilkinson PART II: BEYOND THE TRENCHES Encoded Enclosures: The Wartime Novels of Stella Benson; D.R.Cohen The Self in Conflict: May Sinclair and the Great War; T.Phillips 'Lives Mocked at by Chance': Contradictory Impulses in Women's Poetry of the Great War; D.Tyler-Bennett 'The Huge Gun and Its One Blind Eye': Scale and the War Poetry and Writings of Harriet Monroe; A.Polizzi PART III: NATIONALITY AND RESPONSE French Women Poets Respond to the Great War; N.S.Goldberg Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women's Fictional Responses to the Great War; D.Coates 'Dear, Tender-Hearted, Uncomprehending America': Dorothy Canfield Fisher's and Edith Wharton's Fictional Responses to World War I; M.R.Ryder PART IV: MODERNISTS AT WAR Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and World War I; M.A.Cohen Artistry and Primitivism in The Enormous Room; W.Blazek PART V: REVISING THE WAR POETS Mother's Boy and Stationmaster's Son: The Problem of Class in the Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen; J.Gibson The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen: A Dissenting Reappraisal; M.Pittock 'Thought That You've Gagged All Day': Siegfried Sassoon, W.H.R.Rivers and [The] Repression of War Experience'; P.Campbell Siegfreid Sassoon: The Legacy of the Great War ; P.J.Quinn Index