Writers At War - Exploring Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden.

List of contents

Introduction
1 Ford Madox Ford’s Unrelatable Narrative of War
Introduction
The elusive ‘Muse of War’
Writing as ethical imperative
From ethical injunction to aesthetic reinvention
Conclusion: towards Parade’s End
2 ‘The Fantastic Dislocation of War’: May Sinclair’s Aporetic War Chronicle
Introduction
A war journal?
‘The high comedy of disaster’: Sinclair’s carnivalesque narrative
From representational crisis to an alternative mimesis
Conclusion
3 Writing Oneself at War: Siegfried Sassoon’s War Diaries
Introduction
The generic fluidity of Sassoon’s war diaries
Writing a myth of oneself
An instance of intensely layered writing: recounting the attack on Fontaine-lès-Croisilles
Conclusion
4 From the ‘Bleeding Edge’ of War: The Singular Voice of Mary Borden
Introduction
Writing in defiance of the conventional nurse figure
A liminal geography of care
Writing alienation
Conclusion: modernism and mimesis
Conclusion

About the author

Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the Université de Nîmes, France, and Researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She has published books on Ford Madox Ford, a collaborative volume on war writing and essays on Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, modernism and war writing. She is the Review Editor for the Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens.

Summary

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Brasme
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032219660
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221966-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; First World War, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Trauma and shock, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I