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Author:

Andrews, Charles, 1979- author.

Title:

Writing against war : literature, activism, and the British peace movement / Charles Andrews.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Peace movements in literature.
Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
Peace movements--Great Britain--20th century.
English fiction.
Experimental fiction, English.
Peace movements.
Peace movements in literature.
Great Britain.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: "Throwing sand" -- Pledging peace in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza -- Challenging death in Storm Jameson's Mirror in darkness trilogy -- Narrating veteran-pacifism in Siegfried Sassoon's memoirs of George Sherston -- Tending the ruins in Rose Macaulay's And no man's wit -- Thinking as fighting in Virginia Woolf's The years and Three guineas -- Coda: Perceiving the peace movement.

Series:

Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory

ISBN:

0810134985
9780810134980
0810134993
9780810134997

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958781165

LCCN:

2017000573

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)