The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Beyond Fiction? The Example of Winged Warfare (1918)

Chapter 3 Literary Images of Vicarious Warfare: British Newspapers and the Origin of the First World War, 1899–1914

Chapter 4 Encoded Enclosures: the Wartime Novels of Stella Benson

Chapter 5 The Self in Conflict: May Sinclair and the Great War

Chapter 6 ‘Lives Mocked at by Chance’: Contradictory Impulses in Women’s Poetry of the Great War

Chapter 7 ‘The Huge Gun with Its One Blind Eye’: Scale and the War Poetry and Writings of Harriet Monroe

Chapter 8 French Women Poets Respond to the Great War

Chapter 9 Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women’s Fictional Responses to the Great War

Chapter 10 ‘Dear, Tender-Hearted, Uncomprehending America’: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s and Edith Wharton’s Fictional Responses to the First World War

Chapter 11 Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and the First World War

Chapter 12 Artistry and Primitivism in The Enormous Room

Chapter 13 Mother’s Boy and Stationmaster’s Son: the Problem of Class in the Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen

Chapter 14 The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen: a Dissenting Reappraisal

Chapter 15 ‘Thoughts That You’ve Gagged All Day’: Siegfried Sassoon, W. H. R. Rivers and ‘[The] Repression of War Experience’

Chapter 16 Siegfried Sassoon: the Legacy of the Great War