The Second Battlefield: Women, Modernism and the First World War

by Angela K. Smith

Explores written representations of First World War experience, produced by a variety of different women. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, in the form of diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the variety of new roles undertaken by women triggered a search, conscious or otherwise, for appropriate new forms of expression. Through the twin approaches of literary criticism and historical exploration, the book contributes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719053013
• ISBN13: 9780719053016
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"