Modernism, history and the First World War

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Overview: Drawing upon medical journals, newspapers, propaganda, military histories, and other writings of the day, Modernism, History and the First World War reads such writers as Woolf, Hd, Ford, Faulkner, Kipling, and Lawrence alongside fiction and memoirs of soldiers and nurses who served in the war. This ground breaking blend of cultural history and close readings shows how modernism after 1914 emerges as a strange but important form of war writing, and was profoundly engaged with its own troubled history. Trudi Tate s a Fellow and Tutor of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and author of The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice (2013). 'Essential reading for anyone interested in modernist fiction and war writing.'-Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University. 'This superb book opened up literary studies of the conflict to a range of issues and approaches that have since become crucial to the field'-Santanu Das, King's College London. Content: Acknowledgements Introduction I. Witness to war 1. War neurotics The sinking of the Lusitania HD's war fiction Kipling, 'Mary Postgate' 2. Propaganda lies Atrocity stories Propaganda exposed Rumour in Parade's End II. Corporeal fantasies 3. Vile bodies Body politics: Barbusse, Under Fire Repression and fascination: Blunden, Undertones of War Bodies in pieces These men were men Dead women Bodies in the earth The violence of Melanie Klein 4. Visible differences Sexual difference: theories of the visible Soldiers in Lawrence Lawrence, 'The Blind Man' Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay III. War and politics 5. The tank and the manufacture of consent Tank banks From Little Willie to Mother Tank writing Wilfred Bion 6. Mrs Dalloway and the Armenian Question Postwar satire The Armenian Question The Prime Minister Select bibliography