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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Romance novels and active service memoirs are the focus of this critical, yet accessible, study. Heavily illustrated, it demonstrates the ways in which popular literature played its role in both the entertainment and the reassurance of the nation.
Full Description
Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but a powerful agents of propaganda. Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and is an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Before the lamps went out: The social and literary background of the Great War ; 2. 'Is your best boy wearing khaki?': Publishing and propaganda ; 3. 'Putting things in their right places': The War in romance novels ; 4. 'I alone am left to tell the tale': Memoirs by women on active service ; Appendix 1: Items on a Boer War theme in iThe Girl's Own Paper/i, iThe Girl's Realm/i, and iThe Lady's Realm/i, 1899-1902 ; Appendix 2: Publishers and the number of pamphlets or books published for Wellington House, 1914-18 ; Appendix 3: Biographies of main authors
