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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Rennie, David A.
Titre(s) : American writers and World War I [Texte imprimé] / David A. Rennie
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 241 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte,
Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway,
American Writers and World War I argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved
in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. Recent research
has focused on constituencies of identity-such as gender, race, and politics-registered
in American Great War writing. Rather than being dominated by their perceived membership
of such socio-political categories, this study argues that writers reacted to and
represented the war in complex ways which were frequently linked to the exigencies
of maintaining a career as a professional author. War writing was implicated in, and
influenced by, wider cultural forces such as governmental censorship, the publishing
business, advertising, and the Hollywood film industry. American Writers and World
War I argues that even authors' hallmark 'anti-war' works are in fact characterized
by an awareness of the war's nuanced effects on society and individuals. By tracking
authors' war writing throughout their entire careers-in well-known texts, autobiography,
correspondence, and neglected works-this study contends that writers' reactions were
multifaceted, and subject to change-in response to their developments as writers and
individuals. This work also uncovers the hitherto unexplored importance of American
cultural and literary precedents which offered writers means of assessing the war.
Ultimately, the volume argues, American World War I writing was highly personal, complex,
and idiosyncratic
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Littérature et guerre -- États-Unis
Écrivains américains
Indice(s) Dewey :
810.935 8 (23e éd.) = Littérature américaine de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - Thèmes historiques,
politiques et militaires
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198858817. - ISBN 9780198858812. - ISBN 9780192602466 (erroné). - ISBN 9780191890918
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466068647
Notice n° :
FRBNF46606864
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: The hell with all the dirty, easy labels : American writers and World
War I ; The business of war : authorship, publishing, and World War I ; Edith Wharton
; Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden ; Thomas Boyd ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Laurence
Stallings ; Ernest Hemingway ; Conclusion.
