This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: TEXTUALITY AND WAR Beyond Fiction? The Example of Winged Warfare; C.Hopkins Literary Images of Vicarious Warfare: British Newspapers and the Origin of the First World War, 1899-1914; C.R.Wilkinson PART II: BEYOND THE TRENCHES Encoded Enclosures: The Wartime Novels of Stella Benson; D.R.Cohen The Self in Conflict: May Sinclair and the Great War; T.Phillips 'Lives Mocked at by Chance': Contradictory Impulses in Women's Poetry of the Great War; D.Tyler-Bennett 'The Huge Gun and Its One Blind Eye': Scale and the War Poetry and Writings of Harriet Monroe; A.Polizzi PART III: NATIONALITY AND RESPONSE French Women Poets Respond to the Great War; N.S.Goldberg Myrmidons to Insubordinates: Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Women's Fictional Responses to the Great War; D.Coates 'Dear, Tender-Hearted, Uncomprehending America': Dorothy Canfield Fisher's and Edith Wharton's Fictional Responses to World War I; M.R.Ryder PART IV: MODERNISTS AT WAR Fatal Symbiosis: Modernism and World War I; M.A.Cohen Artistry and Primitivism in The Enormous Room; W.Blazek PART V: REVISING THE WAR POETS Mother's Boy and Stationmaster's Son: The Problem of Class in the Letters and Poems of Wilfred Owen; J.Gibson The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen: A Dissenting Reappraisal; M.Pittock 'Thought That You've Gagged All Day': Siegfried Sassoon, W.H.R.Rivers and [The] Repression of War Experience'; P.Campbell Siegfreid Sassoon: The Legacy of the Great War ; P.J.Quinn Index