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 physical con...

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1. Verfasser: Das, Santanu (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Zusammenfassung: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. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.
Beschreibung:"Transferred to digital printing, 2008"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : facsimiles, illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.
ISBN:9781139921510
1139921517
9781107295575
1107295572
9781139909778
1139909770
1139902008
9781139902007