Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden...

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Isabelle Brasme

Writers at War

Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden

Isabelle Brasme

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Routledge
31 January 2023

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; First World War; Psychotherapy; Trauma & shock

Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms.

While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors’ literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war.

This book is intended for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduates and anyone interested in war literature.

By: Isabelle Brasme
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 276g
ISBN: 9781032219936
ISBN 10: 1032219939
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1 Ford Madox Ford’s Unrelatable Narrative of War Introduction The elusive ‘Muse of War’ Writing as ethical imperative From ethical injunction to aesthetic reinvention Conclusion: towards Parade’s End 2 ‘The Fantastic Dislocation of War’: May Sinclair’s Aporetic War Chronicle Introduction A war journal? ‘The high comedy of disaster’: Sinclair’s carnivalesque narrative From representational crisis to an alternative mimesis Conclusion 3 Writing Oneself at War: Siegfried Sassoon’s War Diaries Introduction The generic fluidity of Sassoon’s war diaries Writing a myth of oneself An instance of intensely layered writing: recounting the attack on Fontaine-lès-Croisilles Conclusion 4 From the ‘Bleeding Edge’ of War: The Singular Voice of Mary Borden Introduction Writing in defiance of the conventional nurse figure A liminal geography of care Writing alienation Conclusion: modernism and mimesis Conclusion

Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the Université de Nîmes, France, and Researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She has published books on Ford Madox Ford, a collaborative volume on war writing and essays on Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, modernism and war writing. She is the Review Editor for the Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens.