Conceiving strangeness in British first World War writing
[Book]
Claire Buck.
[Basingstoke]
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
1. The First World War and the Unhoming of Europe --;2. Travelers on the Western Front: John Masefield, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, and Enid Bagnold --;3. War's Colonial Aspect: Gertrude Bell, T.E. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster --;4. Mapping Alterity Between Home and War Fronts: Rudyard Kipling, Enid Bagnold, and Rose Allatini --;5. Bringing the War Home: The Imperial War Museum.
This book reframes British First World War literature within Britain's history as an imperial nation. Rereading canonical war writers Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, alongside war writing by Enid Bagnold, E. M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, Roly Grimshaw and others, the book makes clear that the Great War was more than a European war.
War in literature.
War stories, English -- History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.