Front lines of modernism
Subtitle: remapping the Great War in British fiction
By: Mark D. Larabee
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780230108080
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Cartography; Literature and history; Geography in literature; Cartography in literature; History and criticism; Maps in literature; English fiction; Literature and the war; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unsettled space; title: Military mapping and modernist aesthetics: Blunden, Aldington, and Ford; title: In Flanders with no Baedeker: Beaman, Forster, and Ford; title: The persistence of landscape: Montague and West; title: Fluid front lines: Conrad and Woolf; title: Conclusion: the presence of landscape and the meaning of history.