Touch and intimacy in First World War literature
By: Santanu Das.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780521846035
Subjects: Touch in literature; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; Body, Human, in literature; War in literature; World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects
Description: "Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside close investigative readings of literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language in times of crisis."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-264) and index..
Table of contents: title: Trenches; title: Slimescapes; title: Geographies of sense; title: Intimacies; title: 'Kiss me, Hardy': the dying kiss in the First World War trenches; title: Wilfred Owen and the sense of touch; title: Wounds; title: 'The impotence of sympathy': service and suffering in the nurses' memoirs; title: The operating theatre.