The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Feminism in Women's Writings, 1914-64
Claire M. Tylee (Author)
Tylee (U. of Malaga) shows that there does exist an imaginative memory of The Great War that is distinctively women's. She deals with journalism and women war-correspondents, with propaganda and the construction of consciousness, with censorship, pacifism, women's autobiographies and fictionalized w
eBook, English, Jan. 1990
Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, Jan. 1990
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9780333514030, 9780333514023, 0333514033, 0333514025
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The heroic pageantry of war - journalism, women war-correspondents 1914-16, and the ideology of war (Mildred Aldrich, May Sinclair, Mrs St Clair Stobart); mental flannel - a woman's diary 1913-16 - propaganda and the construction of consciousness (Vera Brittain); "The Magic of Adventure" - the Western Front and women's tales about the war zone, 1915-16 (May Cannan, Katherine Mansfield, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden); "despised and rejected" - censorship and women's pacifist novels of the First World War, 1916-18 (Mary Hamilton, Rose Macaulay, Rose Allatini); best-sellers - women's best-selling novels, 1918-28 (May Sinclair, Cicely Hamilton, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall); memoirs of a generation - women's autobiographies and fictionalized war memoirs, 1929-33 (Enid Bagnold, Mary Borden, Evadne Price, Sylvia Pankhurst, Vera Brittain); "Old Unhappy, Far-off Things" - women's elegies, 1932-60 (Hilda Doolittle, Pamela Hinkson, Antonia White). Conclusion: "Forbidden Zone" - the Great War and women's myths. Appendices: dates of significant women writers and their war-writings; extracts from "The Defence of the Realm Act, 1914".