1st Edition
Writers at War Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden
Introduction
1 Ford Madox Ford’s Unrelatable Narrative of War
Introduction
The elusive ‘Muse of War’
Writing as ethical imperative
From ethical injunction to aesthetic reinvention
Conclusion: towards Parade’s End
2 ‘The Fantastic Dislocation of War’: May Sinclair’s Aporetic War Chronicle
Introduction
A war journal?
‘The high comedy of disaster’: Sinclair’s carnivalesque narrative
From representational crisis to an alternative mimesis
Conclusion
3 Writing Oneself at War: Siegfried Sassoon’s War Diaries
Introduction
The generic fluidity of Sassoon’s war diaries
Writing a myth of oneself
An instance of intensely layered writing: recounting the attack on Fontaine-lès-Croisilles
Conclusion
4 From the ‘Bleeding Edge’ of War: The Singular Voice of Mary Borden
Introduction
Writing in defiance of the conventional nurse figure
A liminal geography of care
Writing alienation
Conclusion: modernism and mimesis
Conclusion
Biography
Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the Université de Nîmes, France, and Researcher at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She has published books on Ford Madox Ford, a collaborative volume on war writing and essays on Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, modernism and war writing. She is the Review Editor for the Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens.
