Research Catalog

Title

Women, the First World War and the dramatic imagination : international essays (1914-1999) / edited by Claire M. Tylee.

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tylee, Claire M., 1946-

Description

x, 283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Women's studies ; v. 30

Uniform Title

Women's studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 30.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Drama > Women authors > History and criticism
• World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war
• Women in the theater > History > 20th century
• Women and literature > History > 20th century
• Drama
• Drama > Women authors
• War and literature
• Women and literature
• Women in the theater
• Frauendrama
• Erster Weltkrieg Motiv

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.

Contents

1. Shape of Things to Come: the Remarkable Modernity of Vernon Lee's Satan the Waster (1915-20) / Gill Plain 5 -- 2. Friede Kraze's Erfullungen 'Fulfilment': a play of today for tomorrow (1915) / Hilde Klein 23 -- 3. 'In singing we say how do you do how do you like the war': Gertrude Stein's Irresponsible Wartime 'Play' (1916) / Simon Featherstone 39 -- 4. Women in the Paris Theatre, 1914-19: 'plus ca change ... ' / Odile Krakovitch 55 -- 5. Alice Dunbar Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen and Black Feminist war-drama of the Harlem Renaissance (1918-30) / Claire M Tylee 85 -- 6. Hidden Drama by British Women: Pageants and Sketches from the Great War (1914-21) / Jane Potter 105 -- 7. Berta Lask's Die Befreiung ('Liberation'): a Dramatic Experiment (1926) / Agnes Cardinal 121 -- 8. Pacifism, Pugilism and Proxemics: Irishwomen and World War I -- plays by Sean O'Casey and Eva Gore-Booth (1916-30) / Margaret Llewellyn-Jones 133 -- 9. First World War and Australian National Identity in Dorothy Hewett's play: The Man from Mukinupin (1979) / Angela Woollacott 153 -- 10. Pot Shots to Parting Shots: Wendy Lill's Fighting Days (1985) / Donna Coates 171 -- 11. Theatres of Resistance: Gender, Class and the First World War in Plays by Sheila Rowbotham (1986) and Chris Hannan (1990) / John Fordham 191 -- 12. War and Other Unrealities: Christina Reid's My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? (1987) and Anne Devlin's After Easter (1994) / Linden Peach 207 -- 13. Visualisation of the Abject in Film Dramatisation of Women's Great War Novels: Jennifer Johnston's How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974/1981) and Pat Barker's Regeneration (1992/1997) / J. Rose Atfield 221 -- 14. Feminisation of the Nation at War in Elaine Morgan's television adaptation of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth (1933/1979) / Mary Joannou 237 -- 15. 'Lost Objects of Desire': Melodrama and Political Idealism in Margarethe von Trotta's Rosa Luxemburg (1985) / Tanya Krzywinska 251.

ISBN

• 0773474552
• 9780773474550
• 088946118X
• 9780889461185

LCCN

00066426

OCLC

• ocm45388741
• 45388741
• SCSB-1242893

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library