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Testament of Youth

Author : Vera Brittain
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-07-16
ISBN 10 : 9780297859147
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (859 downloads)

Download Testament of Youth in PDF Full Online by Vera Brittain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A haunting elegy for a lost generation' THE TIMES This classic memoir of the First World War - including an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE. 'Sublimely moving... this is a truly great book' DAILY MAIL 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH STELLA MAGAZINE In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933.

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century

Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0719065747
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (719 downloads)

Download Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century in PDF Full Online by Angela K. Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the 20th century, this collection of accessible and very readable essays explores the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare.

Nurse Writers of the Great War

Author : Christine Hallett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-15
ISBN 10 : 9781784996321
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (996 downloads)

Download Nurse Writers of the Great War in PDF Full Online by Christine Hallett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.

Self-portraits

Author : Andrea Peterson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 3039102583
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (39 downloads)

Download Self-portraits in PDF Full Online by Andrea Peterson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915 Vera Brittain began to wonder whether it was possible to 'make a book out of the very essence of one's self'. In this study, the author moves away from Brittain's already well-documented political passions - socialism, feminism and pacifism - to discuss her enduring fascination with philosophy and the problems surrounding the literary representation of subjectivity. Using the psychoanalytical, philosophical and literary theories known to Brittain as well as some more recent and pertinent theoretical developments, the author examines not only Brittain's explicitly autobiographical writings, but also all of her published novels, The Dark Tide (1923), Not Without Honour (1924), Honourable Estate (1936), Account Rendered (1945) and Born 1925 (1948). This insightful and accessible book details Brittain's innovative writing methods and re-evaluates her contribution to the development of the novel during the early twentieth century. The author offers a new and interesting perspective on one of the most popular writers of the First World War.

English Literature

Author : Steven Croft
Publisher : Letts and Lonsdale
Release Date : 2004-07
ISBN 10 : 1843154404
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (843 downloads)

Download English Literature in PDF Full Online by Steven Croft and published by Letts and Lonsdale. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These New editions of the successful, highly-illustrated study/revision guides have been fully updated to meet the latest specification changes. Written by experienced examiners, they contain in-depth coverage of the key information plus hints, tips and guidance about how to achieve top grades in the A2 exams.

Inside Out

Author : Teresa Gómez Reus
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9789042024410
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (24 downloads)

Download Inside Out in PDF Full Online by Teresa Gómez Reus and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays. Here scholars from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland and the United States reconsider the well-entrenched assumptions associated with the public/private distinction, working with the notions of public and private spheres while testing their currency and exploring their blurred edges. The essays cover and uncover a rich variety of spaces, from the slums and court-rooms of London to the American wilderness, from the Victorian drawing-room and sick-room to out of the ordinary places like Turkish baths and the trenches of the First World War. Where previous studies have tended to focus on a single aspect of women's engagement with space, this edited book reveals a plethora of subtle and tenacious strategies found in a variety of discourses that include fiction, poetry, diaries, letters, essays and journalism. Inside Out goes beyond the early work on artistic explorations of gendered space to explore the breadth of the field and its theoretical implications.

Publishers, Readers and the Great War

Author : Vincent Trott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-05
ISBN 10 : 9781474291507
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (291 downloads)

Download Publishers, Readers and the Great War in PDF Full Online by Vincent Trott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.

Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War

Author : Ralf Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-09-20
ISBN 10 : 9783110422559
Pages : 540 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (422 downloads)

Download Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War in PDF Full Online by Ralf Schneider and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Between Friends

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-11-03
ISBN 10 : 9780349012278
Pages : 285 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (12 downloads)

Download Between Friends in PDF Full Online by Elaine Showalter and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. A literary relationship that began when the women met at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1919, it lasted until Winifred's early death at the age of thirty-seven. The letters, written from 1920 to 1935, kept them 'continuously together', and show us the life of two pioneers who wished to make their mark as writers and campaigners. Each encouraged and advised the other. However, there were periods when they were literary rivals. Winifred landed a book deal first; Vera produced an international bestseller with Testament of Youth; and the letters show them negotiating envy and self-doubt. It was at times an uneven relationship: Vera, more than four years older, was married and had two children during this period, while Winifred, a single woman with an adventurous spirit, travelled and made a wide range of friends. As the heroine of her novel South Riding says, 'I was born to be a spinster and by God, I'm going to spin!' Vera decisively influenced Winifred's passion for feminism and peace; 'You made me,' Winifred told her. In turn, Winifred, who took care of Vera's children and placated her husband, gave Vera crucial intellectual and emotional support, fiercely believing in her literary gifts. A portrait of the inter-war years and a dramatic, touching and ultimately tragic story, the letters have the hallmarks of honest female friendship: not without friction and with its own delicate co-dependency, but life-changing for them both.

British Identity in World War I

Author : Mary K. Laurents
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-12-10
ISBN 10 : 9781793617439
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (617 downloads)

Download British Identity in World War I in PDF Full Online by Mary K. Laurents and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation—Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain—as well as other less typical cases—George Mallory and JRR Tolkien—to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.

Modern British Women Writers

Author : Vicki K.. Janik
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 0313310300
Pages : 456 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)

Download Modern British Women Writers in PDF Full Online by Vicki K.. Janik and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta.

Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”

Author : Lisa Regan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-12-14
ISBN 10 : 9781443818247
Pages : 265 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (818 downloads)

Download Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time” in PDF Full Online by Lisa Regan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”: Critical Essays brings together for the first time a range of scholarly perspectives on one of Britain’s best-loved regional authors. Remembered for her vivid portrayal of 1930s rural Yorkshire in her final novel, South Riding (1936) and for her friendship with Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) has become a key figure for those interested in British literature, politics, and culture between the wars. Epitomising the professional independence and political passion which we have come to associate with the newly emancipated women of her era, Holtby’s was a life devoted to myriad causes and directed to the pressing issues of her day. With fresh perspectives on Holtby’s better known novels alongside new critical forays into her short stories, drama, journalism, and historical writing, Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time” sheds new light on a woman who not only spoke out in support of feminism, peace, and racial equality at a time when fascism and war loomed, but who also shared with us her views on a wide spectrum of topical concerns from Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, psychology, spinsters, mothers, and the B.B.C., to her delight in clothes, films, and village gossip.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
ISBN 10 : 9781136787447
Pages : 1141 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (787 downloads)

Download Encyclopedia of Life Writing in PDF Full Online by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

The Great War

Author : Dan Todman
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-03-04
ISBN 10 : 9780826467287
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (467 downloads)

Download The Great War in PDF Full Online by Dan Todman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of ground. Writers, notably Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, provided unforgettable images of the idiocy and tragedy of the war. Yet this vision of the war is at best a partial one, the war only achieving its status as the worst of wars in the last thirty years. At the time, the war aroused emotions of pride and patriotism. Not everyone involved remembered the war only for its miseries. The generals were often highly professional and indeed won the war in 1918. In this original and challenging book, Dan Todman shows views of the war have changed over the last ninety years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.

Women's Autobiography

Author : V. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2003-09-16
ISBN 10 : 9780230513792
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (513 downloads)

Download Women's Autobiography in PDF Full Online by V. Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of twentieth century writers, including Vera Brittain, Anne Frank and Eva Hoffman, this study focuses on how recent theories of trauma can elucidate the narrative strategies employed in their autobiographical writing. The historical circumstances of each author are also considered. The result is a book which provides a vivid sense of how women writers have attempted to encompass key events of the twentieth century, particularly the First World War and the Holocaust, within their life stories.

Some Joe You Don't Know

Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : 0313295506
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)

Download Some Joe You Don't Know in PDF Full Online by Anthony Slide and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biographical guide to 100 British TV personalities who have appeared on American networks--from Joan Hickson to Benny Hill to Leo McKern.

Vera Brittain: A Life

Author : Mark Bostridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-02-25
ISBN 10 : 9780349008547
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (8 downloads)

Download Vera Brittain: A Life in PDF Full Online by Mark Bostridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; she revealed a richly emotional life in her writing but was outwardly sober and reserved; she possessed a fierce desire for fame and recognition but was ready to sacrifice both on matters of principle. This biography - comprehensive, authoritative and immensely readable - confirms Vera Brittain's stature as one of the most remarkable women of our time.