Touch and intimacy in First World War literature / Santanu Das.
"The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Summary: | "The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the Front, to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs"--Bookjacket. |
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| Item Description: | "Transferred to digital printing, 2008"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 269 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 052184603X 9780521846035 0521066875 9780521066877 |