Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918

by Jane Potter

Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers--many of whom are now virtually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199279861
• ISBN13: 9780199279869
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"