Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War: Dardanella and Peter

by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau

Book Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction: Making Love Sexual in the Edwardian Age.- Chapter 2: The Emotional Body: Religion and Male Friendship at Oxford.- Chapter 3: "Phallic Thumbs" Conceiving a New Eden.- Chapter 3: The Carnal Brother Body: Emotion, Interiority, and the Epistolary "Talking Cure".- Chapter 5: The Gendered Body: Marriage and a "home of my own".- Chapter 6: Purring Vaginas and Waggling Penises: Sexting World War I.- Chapter 7: The Maternal Body: Pregnancy, Child-Rearing, and Birth Control.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: "Are the Thumbs Still Wagging?" Gwyneth, Harry and the Psyche of an Age.- Bibliography.- Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030102734
• ISBN13: 9783030102739
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"