Commemorative Modernisms

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through womens literary representations of death

• Provides the first sustained study of death and commemoration in womens literature in the wartime and postwar period
• Offers a reconsideration of the relationship between the First World War and literary modernism through the lens of womens writing
• Considers the literary impact of the vast mortality of the First World War and the culture of war commemoration on British and American womens writing

One of the key questions of modern literature was the problem of what to do with the war dead. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf, as well as visual and material culture, this book provides the first