The Great War and women's consciousness : images of militarism and womanhood in women's writings, 1914-64

The literary memory of the Great War is dominated by the writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves and Blunden. The voice is a male voice. This book is a study of what women wrote about militarism and world war 1 Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction ‘We Will Remember’....Pages 1-17 The Heroic Pageantry of War....Pages 19-46 Mental Flannel....Pages 47-74 ‘The Magic of Adventure’....Pages 75-102 ‘Despised and Rejected’....Pages 103-129 Best-Sellers....Pages 130-183 Memoirs of a Generation....Pages 184-223 ‘Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things’....Pages 224-249 Conclusion....Pages 250-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-293 Claire M. Tylee. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 263-283.