“The moaning of the world” and the “words that bring me peace”: Modernism and the First World War

Haslam, Sara (2012). “The moaning of the world” and the “words that bring me peace”: Modernism and the First World War. In: Piette, Adam and Rawlinson, Mark eds. The Edinburgh Companion to British and American War Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 47–57.

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This chapter takes its place in a huge new project on twentieth-century British and American war literature. It focuses on technology and sense perception in First World War writing in its account of the formal and contextual relationships between modernism and the war.

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