03522nam 2200721 450 991045519420332120200520144314.00-8131-8180-10-8131-6134-70-8131-7068-0(CKB)111004368603318(EBL)1915602(SSID)ssj0000194652(PQKBManifestationID)12030796(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194652(PQKBWorkID)10250072(PQKB)11332746(MiAaPQ)EBC1915602(OCoLC)47010503(MdBmJHUP)muse44629(Au-PeEL)EBL1915602(CaPaEBR)ebr11007319(CaONFJC)MIL691328(OCoLC)900344944(EXLCZ)9911100436860331820150129h19971997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLoving arms British women writing the Second World War /Karen SchneiderLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1997.©19971 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-60046-5 0-8131-1980-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 aEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismWorld War, 1939-1945Great BritainLiterature and the warWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th centuryEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWar stories, EnglishHistory and criticismWorld War, 1914-1918WomenGreat BritainElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.World War, 1939-1945Literature and the war.Women and literatureHistoryEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.War stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.World War, 1914-1918Women820.9/358Schneider Karen1948-1032756MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455194203321Loving arms2450791UNINA