At Home, At War : Domesticity and World War I in American Literature /

At Home, At War : Domesticity and World War I in American Literature /

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This study demonstrates that such literary divisions as war novel and domestic novel limit readers' understanding of the ways these categories rely on and respond to each other. Haytock argues that gender creates an ideological context through which both domesticity and war are viewed and under...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haytock, Jennifer Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatur
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
War stories, American.
War in literature.
War and literature.
Home in literature.
Domestic fiction, American.
American fiction.
Guerre dans la litterature.
Foyer dans la litterature.
Recits de guerre americains > Histoire et critique.
Roman familial americain > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > États-Unis > Litterature et guerre.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Literature and the war.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ideology of domesticity and war in World War I
  • Parents and soldiers: incest and experience
  • Domesticity at the front: gender, resistance, and self
  • "Because women have babies": Hemingway's soldiers and their pregnant women
  • The return of the dead to the American family.

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