War isn't the only hell : a new reading of World War I American literature /
Gandal, Keith,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the shock of war and meritocracy -- War literature by noncombatant males. Noncombatant mobilization wounds: the postwar masterpieces of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner -- The horrors of war mobilization: the early works of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Dos Passos -- Saved by French arrest and imprisonment: E. E. Cumming's The enormous room -- Hemingway's thrice-told tale: A farewell to arms and noncombatant fantasy -- War literature by female participants and nonparticipants. The mobilization of young women: soldiers, noncombatants, and women from a female perspective in Porter's "Pale horse, pale rider" -- "A miracle so wide": Ellen La Motte, Willa Cather, and the war's opportunity -- Combatant war literature. A war hero in an antiwar tale? Thomas Boyd's Through the wheat -- The intimate seductions of meritocracy: Laurence Stallings's Plumes -- Not only what you would expect: the inside story in Victor Daly's Not only war -- Too glorifying to tell: the unspeakable in William March's Company K and Hervey Allen's Toward the flame -- Conclusion: war and meritocracy literature.
American prose literature
World War, 1914-1918
War and society
SOCIAL SCIENCE
American prose literature.