Edith Wharton And Mary Roberts Rinehart At The Western Front 1915

Author : Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476667461

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Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 by Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski Pdf

By 1915, the Western Front was a 450-mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the stalemate were murderous and futile. Censorship of the press was extreme--no one wanted the carnage reported. Remakably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart's unpublished day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists who toured the front in 1915. The present authors' explorations of the places Wharton and Rinehart visited serves as a travel guide to the Western Front.

Author : Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476632124

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Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart at the Western Front, 1915 by Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski Pdf

 By 1915, the Western Front was a 450–mile line of trenches, barbed wire and concrete bunkers, stretching across Europe. Attempts to break the stalemate were murderous and futile. Censorship of the press was extreme—no one wanted the carnage reported. Remakably, the Allied command gave two intrepid American women, Edith Wharton and Mary Roberts Rinehart, permission to visit the front and report on what they saw. Their travels are reconstructed from their own published accounts, Rinehart’s unpublished day-by-day notes, and the writings of other journalists who toured the front in 1915. The present authors’ explorations of the places Wharton and Rinehart visited serves as a travel guide to the Western Front.

Author : Edward J. Klekowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:986507859

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Mary Roberts Rinehart and Edith Wharton on the Front by Edward J. Klekowski Pdf

Author : Brooke Kroeger
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525659150

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Undaunted by Brooke Kroeger Pdf

An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women’s rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement and today’s racial and gender disparities. Undaunted unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440873577

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Voices of World War I by Priscilla Roberts Pdf

Bringing together a diverse collection of primary source documents, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War I from a variety of perspectives, from soldiers on the front lines to civilians supporting the war effort at home. Part of Bloomsbury's Voices of an Era series, this carefully curated collection highlight the wartime experiences of a diverse array of individuals from around the globe. In addition to covering major military innovations and turning points, documents explore how issues of gender, race,diplomacy, and empire building impacted individuals' experience of the Great War. Each of the 42 documents includes contextual information and thought-provoking questions to guide readers in their exploration of the text. In addition to high-interest sidebars, in-text glossary definitions, biographical snapshots of key figures, and a comprehensive chronology of the war, the book also includes a guide to evaluating and interpreting primary sources that bolsters readers' analytical and critical thinking skills. Although it was nicknamed "the war to end all wars," World War I heralded the start of modern-day conflicts. The human toll of the Great War was immense-an estimated 9 million soldiers died on the battlefield, while more than 5 million civilians died as the result of military actions, disease, or famine. In the wake of World War I, empires crumbled and new nations won their independence. Although the events and aftermath of World War I happened on an epic scale, the conflict is best understood through the human lens provided by these primary sources.

Author : David A. Rennie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192602473

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American Writers and World War I by David A. Rennie Pdf

Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, American Writers and World War I argues that authors' war writing continuously evolved in response to developments in their professional and personal lives. Recent research has focused on constituencies of identity—such as gender, race, and politics—registered in American Great War writing. Rather than being dominated by their perceived membership of such socio-political categories, this study argues that writers reacted to and represented the war in complex ways which were frequently linked to the exigencies of maintaining a career as a professional author. War writing was implicated in, and influenced by, wider cultural forces such as governmental censorship, the publishing business, advertising, and the Hollywood film industry. American Writers and World War I argues that even authors' hallmark 'anti-war' works are in fact characterized by an awareness of the war's nuanced effects on society and individuals. By tracking authors' war writing throughout their entire careers—in well-known texts, autobiography, correspondence, and neglected works—this study contends that writers' reactions were multifaceted, and subject to change—in response to their developments as writers and individuals. This work also uncovers the hitherto unexplored importance of American cultural and literary precedents which offered writers means of assessing the war. Ultimately, the volume argues, American World War I writing was highly personal, complex, and idiosyncratic.

Author : Sara Prieto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319685946

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Reporting the First World War in the Liminal Zone by Sara Prieto Pdf

This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors’ experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First World War was portrayed in a series of works of literary journalism at different stages of the conflict, from the summer of 1914 to the Armistice in November 1918. Sara Prieto explores a number of representative texts written by a series of civilian eyewitness who have been passed over in earlier studies of literature and journalism in the Great War. The texts under discussion are situated in the ‘liminal zone’, as they were written in the middle of a transitional period, half-way between two radically different literary styles: the romantic and idealising ante bellum tradition, and the cynical and disillusioned modernist school of writing. They are also the product of the various stages of a physical and moral journey which took several authors into the fantastic albeit nightmarish world of the Western Front, where their understanding of reality was transformed beyond anything they could have anticipated.

Author : Kelly Alice Kelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474459938

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Commemorative Modernisms by Kelly Alice Kelly Pdf

Reconsiders the relationship between the Great War and modernism through women's literary representations of deathProvides the first sustained study of death and commemoration in women's literature in the wartime and postwar periodOffers a reconsideration of the relationship between the First World War and literary modernism through the lens of women's writing Considers the literary impact of the vast mortality of the First World War and the culture of war commemoration on British and American women's writingOne 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 sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism. Considering previously neglected writing by women in the war zones and at home, as well as the marginalised writings of well-known modernist authors, and drawing on international archival research, this book demonstrates the intertwining of modernist, war, and memorial culture, and broadens the canon of war writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Books
ISBN : PSU:000050847440

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The New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970: Subject index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112033804151

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Brentano's Book Chat by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UIUC:30112033768331

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Quarterly Bulletin by Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : NYPL:33433069125320

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Bulletin of the Brockton Public Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130192174

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Michigan Library Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michigan State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2921275

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Michigan Library Bulletin by Michigan State Library Pdf

Author : Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786492008

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Eyewitnesses to the Great War by Ed Klekowski,Libby Klekowski Pdf

Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war's beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw the war from both the French and German lines. Since most of the Americans who served, regardless of which side they were on, were in Champagne and Lorraine, this sector is the focus. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the context of their times. A special set of maps based upon German Army battle maps was drawn and rare photographs supplement the text.