The second battlefield

Women, modernism and the First World War

By: Angela Smith

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Paperback | 28 December 2000

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This text explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women and investigates the interface between such writing and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on an engagement with issues of gender which remains topical today. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious or otherwise, for appropriate new forms of expression. The experimental impressions produced on the private page are traced through to the public world of fiction, as women used the subject of war to direct their writing, often with radical artistic consequences. Through the twin approaches of literary criticism and historical exploration, the book contributes a new strand to the scholarship of women and war, as well as expanding current notions of how modernisms should be defined, providing a tool for students of literature, history and women's studies as well as enthusiasts of the First World War.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: the First World War, modernisms and women	p. 1
Non-fiction
The private pen	p. 17
Private to public: the front-line woman	p. 47
Accidental modernisms: hospital stories of the First World War	p. 70
Fiction
'Living words': the woman's story	p. 105
Not So Quiet ...: women answer back	p. 107
Living with words: the war according to HD	p. 120
'Agents of Civilisation'	p. 134
A conflict of interests: May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven	p. 135
A conflict of ideas: Rose Macaulay's Non-Combatants and Others	p. 142
Art, pacifism, sexuality: Rose Allatini's Despised and Rejected	p. 148
Happy foreigners: female modernisms	p. 161
'I have broken the silence': Katherine Mansfield's war	p. 162
Rebecca West: psychoanalysing the home front	p. 170
The Happy Foreigner: Enid Bagnold and the post-war woman	p. 179
Conclusion: the aspect of peace	p. 193
Select bibliography	p. 200
Further reading	p. 207
Index	p. 211
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