Front Lines of Modernism Remapping the Great War in British Fiction

by Larabee, Mark D.

• ISBN13: 9780230108080
• ISBN10: 0230108083
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. It restores their fiction to largely forgotten cultural contexts of cartography, geography, and art history, using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials. Reexamining modernist and traditional writing in this light reveals how various modes of topographical representation, informed by pictorial and mapmaking conventions and globalizing visions, allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.

Author Biography

Mark D. Larabee is an Assistant Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, where he teaches modern British and world literature. He is active in the Joseph Conrad Society of America and has published articles on Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Unsettled Space * Military Mapping and Modernist Aesthetics: Blunden, Aldington, and Ford * In Flanders with No Baedeker: Beaman, Forster, and Ford * The Persistence of Landscape: Montague and West * Fluid Front Lines: Conrad and Woolf * Conclusion: The Presence of Landscape and the Meaning of History