Boys in khaki, girls in print
Subtitle: women's literary responses to the Great War, 1914-1918
By: Jane Potter.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war -- Great Britain; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British -- Publishing; Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Great Britain
Description: "[This book] turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers -- many of whom are now virtually forgotten -- that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war ... They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but powerful agents of propaganda"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the lamps went out : the social and literary background of the Great War; title: 'Is your best boy wearing khaki?' : publishing and propaganda; title: 'Putting things in their right places' : the war in romance novels; title: 'I alone am left to tell the tale' : memoirs by women on active service.