- Catholic University of San Anthony, Modern Languages, Faculty MemberUniversity of Oviedo / Universidad de Oviedo, English Studies, Alumnusadd
- Postmodernism, Literary Criticism, First World War, 20th Century American, 20th Century British Literature, Women's Writing (Literature), and 10 moreWorld War I Writing, Early 20th Century British, Literary Journalism, War Reporting, Filología Inglesa, Travel Writing, World War I, Liminality, First World War Literature, and Great Waredit
- Teresa Gómez Reusedit
This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors’ experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First... more
This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors’ experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First World War was portrayed in a series of works of literary journalism at different stages of the conflict, from the summer of 1914 to the Armistice in November 1918.
It explores a number of representative texts written by a series of civilian eyewitness who have been passed over in earlier studies of literature and journalism in the Great War (i.e. Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Philip Gibbs, May Sinclair, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling...). The texts under discussion are situated in the ‘liminal zone’, as they were written in the middle of a transitional period, half-way between two radically different literary styles: the romantic and idealising ante bellum tradition, and the cynical and disillusioned modernist school of writing. They are also the product of the various stages of a physical and moral journey which took several authors into the fantastic albeit nightmarish world of the Western Front, where their understanding of reality was transformed beyond anything they could have anticipated.
It explores a number of representative texts written by a series of civilian eyewitness who have been passed over in earlier studies of literature and journalism in the Great War (i.e. Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Philip Gibbs, May Sinclair, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling...). The texts under discussion are situated in the ‘liminal zone’, as they were written in the middle of a transitional period, half-way between two radically different literary styles: the romantic and idealising ante bellum tradition, and the cynical and disillusioned modernist school of writing. They are also the product of the various stages of a physical and moral journey which took several authors into the fantastic albeit nightmarish world of the Western Front, where their understanding of reality was transformed beyond anything they could have anticipated.
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When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One... more
When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One of these organisations was the group of writers known as " the Vigilantes. " This essay examines Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War (1917), published by the Vigilantes a few months after the American declaration of war. The discussion frames the context under which the Vigilantes conceived their poems as well as the main strategies that they employed to poetically portray the role that the United States was to play in the confl ict.
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e American author Mildred Aldrich was one of the rst writers to publish an autobiographical account, A Hilltop on the Marne, about the First World War. is essay explores the letters that conform that text, written in the summer of... more
e American author Mildred Aldrich was one of the rst writers to publish an autobiographical account, A Hilltop on the Marne, about the First World War. is essay explores the letters that conform that text, written in the summer of 1914, and analyses the di culties that Aldrich had to overcome in order to describe the rst weeks of the con ict from a house strategically located a few miles away from
the Battle of the Marne. Paying special attention to the rural space where the house is located and the urban space of the city of Paris, I explore the e ects that the outbreak of the war caused on the French population and how the author dealt with her own war experience.
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La escritora norteamericana Mildred Aldrich fue una de las primeras autoras en publicar una experiencia autobiográ ca, A Hilltop on the Marne, sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. Este artículo estudia esa obra, formada por un conjunto de cartas enviadas por Aldrich en el verano de 1914, y analiza las di cultades a las que se enfrentó la autora para describir el con icto desde la posición privilegiada en la que se encontraba su casa, a pocos kilómetros de la batalla del Marne. Con especial atención al estudio del espacio rural en el que se encuentra
la casa y al del espacio urbano de la ciudad de París, se exploran los efectos que el estallido de la guerra provocó en la cotidianeidad de la población francesa y las emociones vividas por la propia autora.
the Battle of the Marne. Paying special attention to the rural space where the house is located and the urban space of the city of Paris, I explore the e ects that the outbreak of the war caused on the French population and how the author dealt with her own war experience.
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La escritora norteamericana Mildred Aldrich fue una de las primeras autoras en publicar una experiencia autobiográ ca, A Hilltop on the Marne, sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. Este artículo estudia esa obra, formada por un conjunto de cartas enviadas por Aldrich en el verano de 1914, y analiza las di cultades a las que se enfrentó la autora para describir el con icto desde la posición privilegiada en la que se encontraba su casa, a pocos kilómetros de la batalla del Marne. Con especial atención al estudio del espacio rural en el que se encuentra
la casa y al del espacio urbano de la ciudad de París, se exploran los efectos que el estallido de la guerra provocó en la cotidianeidad de la población francesa y las emociones vividas por la propia autora.
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This essay focuses on May Sinclair's A Journal of Impressions of Belgium (1915, London: MacMillan), Mary Roberts Rinehart's Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915, New York: George Doran Company) and Edith Wharton's... more
This essay focuses on May Sinclair's A Journal of Impressions of Belgium (1915, London: MacMillan), Mary Roberts Rinehart's Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (1915, New York: George Doran Company) and Edith Wharton's Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (2010, London: Hesperus Press Limited), and examines how these writers reflected and negotiated in their writing their status as eyewitnesses to the First World War. In a male-dominated world, the presence of women writers at the front was unusual. These three authors wrote about their condition as ‘other’ in a world that had been traditionally secluded for them, and had to negotiate the strategies they would resort in order to portray the conflict.
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Este artículo examina el juego literario entre realidad y ficción que se desarrolla en The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916). El libro narra la labor desarrollada por Elsie Knocker y Mairi Chisholm, “las mujeres de Pervyse”, en un hospital... more
Este artículo examina el juego literario entre realidad y ficción que se desarrolla en The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916). El libro narra la labor desarrollada por Elsie Knocker y Mairi Chisholm, “las mujeres de Pervyse”, en un hospital de campaña durante los primeros meses de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Jugando con los límites entre la escritura de ficción, el género epistolar y la literatura autobiográfica, la autora-editora
del texto, Geraldine Mitton, construye una inusual narrativa que permite ilustrar la dificultad a la que muchos autores/as se enfrentaron a la hora de narrar y describir una guerra devastadora que rompió con los parámetros de representación de la guerra previamente establecidos.
This article examines the literary game between fiction and reality that takes places in The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916). The book describes the role that Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, “the women of Pervyse”, developed in a field hospital during the early months of the First World War. Geraldine E. Mitton (the author-editor of the book) plays with the limits of fiction, epistolary and autobiographical writing, to construct
an unusual narrative. As a result, the text illustrates the difficulties that many authors faced when describing a devastating war that broke all previously established
parameters of representation.
del texto, Geraldine Mitton, construye una inusual narrativa que permite ilustrar la dificultad a la que muchos autores/as se enfrentaron a la hora de narrar y describir una guerra devastadora que rompió con los parámetros de representación de la guerra previamente establecidos.
This article examines the literary game between fiction and reality that takes places in The Cellar-House of Pervyse (1916). The book describes the role that Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm, “the women of Pervyse”, developed in a field hospital during the early months of the First World War. Geraldine E. Mitton (the author-editor of the book) plays with the limits of fiction, epistolary and autobiographical writing, to construct
an unusual narrative. As a result, the text illustrates the difficulties that many authors faced when describing a devastating war that broke all previously established
parameters of representation.
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The present chapter focuses on the teaching of British poetry from the First World War. Rather than following a traditional approach, in which students are introduced to the historical context of the First World War and are later on asked... more
The present chapter focuses on the teaching of British poetry from the First World War. Rather than following a traditional approach, in which students are introduced to the historical context of the First World War and are later on asked to read and analyse some of the poems written by representative authors such as Owen or Sassoon, it is my intention to present a proposal in which creative writing is used as a means to teach war poetry to students of literature whose L1 is other than English.
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This chapter discusses the 1917 war diary of the American reporter Will Irwin and his role and influence in the shaping of the image of the First World War for the American audience.
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This chapter deals with Richard Harding Davis's experience at the Western Front at the beginning of the Great War. In his book With the Allies, he presents a paradoxical view of the conflict, halfway between the romantic view of warfare... more
This chapter deals with Richard Harding Davis's experience at the Western Front at the beginning of the Great War. In his book With the Allies, he presents a paradoxical view of the conflict, halfway between the romantic view of warfare and the devastating nature of warfare that WWI brought about.
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When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One... more
When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, the Committee of Public Information (CPI) organised several branches of propaganda to advertise and promote the war in hundreds of magazines and newspapers nationwide. One of these organisations was the group of writers known as “the Vigilantes.” This essay examines Fifes and Drums: A Collection of Poems of America at War (1917), published by the Vigilantes a few months after the American declaration of war. The discussion frames the context under which the Vigilantes conceived their poems as well as the main strategies that they employed to poetically portray the role that the United States was to play in the conflict.
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espanolLa escritora norteamericana Mildred Aldrich fue una de las primeras autoras en publicar una experiencia autobiografica, A Hilltop on the Marne, sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. Este articulo estudia esa obra, formada por un... more
espanolLa escritora norteamericana Mildred Aldrich fue una de las primeras autoras en publicar una experiencia autobiografica, A Hilltop on the Marne, sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial. Este articulo estudia esa obra, formada por un conjunto de cartas enviadas por Aldrich en el verano de 1914, y analiza las dificultades a las que se enfrento la autora para describir el conflicto desde la posicion privilegiada en la que se encontraba su casa, a pocos kilometros de la batalla del Marne. Con especial atencion al estudio del espacio rural en el que se encuentra la casa y al del espacio urbano de la ciudad de Paris, se exploran los efectos que el estallido de la guerra provoco en la cotidianeidad de la poblacion francesa y las emociones vividas por la propia autora. EnglishThe American author Mildred Aldrich was one of the first writers to publish an autobiographical account, A Hilltop on the Marne, about the First World War. This essay explores the letters that conform that text, written ...