American Writers and World War I

This volumes explores how author's war writing was shaped by their personal and professional lives and it studies works by Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Hell with All the Dirty, Easy Labels: World War I in American Literature


• 1: The Business of War: Authorship, Publishing, and World War I


• 2: Edith Wharton


• 3: Ellen La Motte and Mary Boden


• 4: Thomas Boyd


• 5: F. Scott Fitzgerald


• 6: Laurence Stallings


• 7: It Is Very Complicated: Ernest Hemingway


• Conclusion

About the author

David Rennie is the editor of Scottish Literature and World War I (Edinburgh University Press), and the author of essays in The Cambridge History of American Literature and Culture and the Great War, The Hemingway Review, and The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. He is an Honorary Research Associate at Aberdeen University.

Summary

This volumes explores how author's war writing was shaped by their personal and professional lives and it studies works by Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway.

Additional text

Rennie's book provides a useful overview of seven authors with different experiences of the war and at different stages in their careers, united by their multifaceted and evolving responses to the conflagration. It will enable readers to have a broader appreciation of that part of the American literary community which was, like Wharton, intensely engaged with the war and its impact, and, more importantly, it will encourage readers to make further comparisons.

Product details

• Authors: David A. Rennie, David A. (Honorary Research Associate Rennie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2020
• EAN: 9780198858812
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885881-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, First World War, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I