Touch and intimacy in First World War literature:

"The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physic...

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Main Author: Das, Santanu ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
Edition:1. publ., digitally printed version 2008
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Summary:"The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the Front, to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. From the bookjacket.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 269 S.) Ill.
ISBN:9781107295575
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781107295575

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