Front Lines of Modernism Remapping the Great War in British Fiction [Hardcover]

This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials,?it reexamines?modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.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

Front Lines of Modernism takes a new look at old texts. Through topography, space, place and modernism, it provides original readings of important early twentieth-century works . . . [and] is an innovative study of literature, cartography and geography that demonstrates the power of modernism to both heal and redeem. Larabee's eloquently written, sophisticated study is a scholarly work of considerable magnitude. - Jane Mattisson, English Studies

This comparative strategy produces a series of refreshing and innovative readings . . . Larabee's methodology succeeds largely due to his impressive grasp of battlefield conditions during World War I and British military history. - Claire Barber, Modern Fiction Studies

A suggestive, well researched, highly readable book that offers an interesting insight on the development of British fiction through the intertwining of mapping, a new sense of experiencing and describing reality, and the trauma of the Great War - Juan Herrero-Sen?s, Studies in the Novel

Insightful and visionary . . . Larabee proves his claims multiple times over . . . this book condenses a valuable and fascinating intersection of the Great War and the modernist sense of space and place for scholars of history, literature, cultural studies, political science, ls{