Writing against war : literature, activism, and the British peace movement /
Andrews, Charles, 1979-
Writing against war : literature, activism, and the British peace movement / Charles Andrews. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (249 pages). - Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780810135000
Peace movements in literature.
Peace movements--Great Britain--20th century.
Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PR888 / .W758 2017
Writing against war : literature, activism, and the British peace movement / Charles Andrews. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (249 pages). - Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780810135000
Peace movements in literature.
Peace movements--Great Britain--20th century.
Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic Books.
PR888 / .W758 2017