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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812718303321

Autore

Schneider Karen <1948->

Titolo

Loving arms : British women writing the Second World War / / Karen Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-8131-8180-1

0-8131-6134-7

0-8131-7068-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain - Literature and the war

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

War stories, English - History and criticism

World War, 1914-1918 - Women - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Narrating War; 1 Discerning the Plots; 2 Inscribing An/Other Story: Katharine Burdekin, Stevie Smith, and the Move toward Rebellion; 3 Double-Voiced Discourse: Elizabeth Bowen's Collaboration and Resistance; 4 Re-Plotting the War(s): Virginia Woolf's Radical Legacy; 5 A Different Story: Doris Lessing's Great Escape; Coda: As Time Goes By; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II.Evoking the famous ""St. Crispin's Day"" speech from Henry V and then her own



father's account of being moved to tears on V-J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far-reaching potency. She admits -- perhaps for a