Research Catalog

Title

Dressing up for war : transformations of gender and genre in the discourse and literature of war / edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga, Andrew Monnickendam.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Usandizaga, Aránzazu.
• Monnickendam, Andrew.
• Usandizaga, Aránzazu
• Monnickendam, Andrew

Description

xix, 292 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 24

Uniform Title

Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 24.

Subject

• War in literature
• Women and war
• Women in war
• Women in literature
• War and literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• "How funny I must look with my breeches pulled down to my knees": nurses' memoirs and autobiographies from the Great War / Laurie Kaplan -- The perversion of motherhood: the trope of the son at the front / Peter Buitenhuis -- The center of the cyclone: gender and genre in H.D.'s war novel / Caroline Zilboorg -- Deadly marriages: masculinity and the pleasures of violence in H.R. Haggard's romances of adventure / María Ángeles Toda -- (Un)masking the self: the hero in Edwardian popular fiction / António Lopes -- Performing genres: Sarah Edmonds' Nurse and spy and the case of the cross-dressed text / Jane E. Schultz -- The prop they need: undressing and the politics of war in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie / Ana María Sánchez-Arce -- The metamorphoses of Judith in literature and art: war by other means / Renate Peters.
• Adelita's radical act of counter-writing / Tabea Alexa Linhard -- Dressing up for war: militarism in early modern culture / Simon Barker -- Repressing the Amazon: cross-dressing and militarism in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene / Joan Curbet -- Warriors and healers, impostors and mothers: Betty Miller's On the side of the angels / Jenny Hartley -- "Sangre fértil"/fertile blood: migratory crossings, war and healing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera / Maria Antònia Oliver -- Towards a non-combatant war poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop / Lorrie Goldensohn -- Breaking the silence, crossing the line: women veteran poets of the Vietnam War / Simon Philo -- The enemy is 'us': misconstruing the real war in The deer hunter and other post-Vietnam war narratives / Kathleen Brady, John Briggs, Edward A. Hagan -- "Name upon name": myth, ritual and the past in recent Irish plays referring to the Great War / Claire Tylee.

ISBN

9042013672 (hd. bd.)

OCLC

• 49197493
• SCSB-11966845

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library