Front Lines of Modernism [electronic resource] : Remapping the Great War in British Fiction /
Larabee, M.author.
This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : unsettled space -- Military mapping and modernist aesthetics : Blunden, Aldington, and Ford -- In Flanders with no Baedeker : Beaman, Forster, and Ford -- The persistence of landscape : Montague and West -- Fluid front lines : Conrad and Woolf -- Conclusion : the presence of landscape and the meaning of history.
This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Civilization-History.
Literature-History and criticism.
Great Britain-History.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural History.
Literary History.
History of Britain and Ireland.