Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War

By Karen Schneider

Book Overview

Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. Evoking the famous "St. Crispin's Day" speech from Henry V and then her own father's account of being moved to tears on V-J Day because he had been too young to fight, Karen Schneider posits that the war story has a far-reaching potency. As widely defined and accepted, war stories are men's stories. If we are to hear another story of war, then we must list

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160103
• ISBN13: 9780813160108
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher