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Brassard, Genevieve.

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Becoming a war heroine: Feminist revision and cultural resistance in women's literature of the First World War (Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Hilda Doolittle, May Sinclair).

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Title/Author:	Becoming a war heroine: Feminist revision and cultural resistance in women's literature of the First World War (Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Hilda Doolittle, May Sinclair)./
Author:	Brassard, Genevieve.
Description:	254 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0526.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123454
ISBN:	0496707651

Becoming a war heroine: Feminist revision and cultural resistance in women's literature of the First World War (Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Hilda Doolittle, May Sinclair).
Brassard, Genevieve.

Becoming a war heroine: Feminist revision and cultural resistance in women's literature of the First World War (Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Hilda Doolittle, May Sinclair). - 254 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0526.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Connecticut, 2004.

The past fifteen years have seen an explosion in scholarship on First World War literature, especially from feminists who focus on women's texts overlooked by studies such as Paul Fussell's Great War and Modern Memory. These feminist studies have coincided with theoretical debates surrounding Modernism as the main paradigm to understand the literary period around the war. The modern period has been redefined temporally and thematically to include authors and texts traditionally left out of Modernism in its narrow definition as formal experimentation. With its juxtaposition of modernist and realist texts by canonical and obscure women writers, my dissertation brings together modernist debates, feminist theory, and war literature. I examine the shock of modern war in its literary representations by Anglo-American women writers such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, and H.D.; I argue that these authors and others resisted predominant wartime discourses about femininity and used their war experience to revise traditional plots. This interdisciplinary project reads historical events, social expectations, and cultural contexts as indispensable texts in dialogue with the literary works under study.

ISBN: 0496707651Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Becoming a war heroine: Feminist revision and cultural resistance in women's literature of the First World War (Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, Hilda Doolittle, May Sinclair).
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