Dressing up for War : : Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War / / edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga, Andrew Monnickendam.

• Superior document: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 24
• TeilnehmendeR: Monnickendam, Andrew,; Usandizaga, Aránzazu,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- I. 1914-1918 THE WAR TO CHANGE ALL WORDS -- 1. Laurie KAPLAN: "How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees": Nurses' Memoirs and Autobiographies from The Great War -- 2. Peter BUITENHUIS: The Perversion of Motherhood: the Trope of the Son at the Front -- 3. Caroline ZILBOORG: The Center of the Cyclone: Gender and Genre in H.D.'s War Novel -- 4. María ÁNGELES TODA: Deadly Marriages: Masculinity and the Pleasures of Violence in H.R. Haggard's Romances of Adventures -- 5. António LOPES: (Un)masking the Self: the Hero in Edwardian Popular Fiction -- II. DRESS REHEARSALS: EARLIER PERFORMANCES AND SCENARIOS -- 6. Jane E. SCHULTZ: Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds' Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text -- 7. Ana María SÁNCHEZ-ARCE: The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie -- 8. Renate PETERS: The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means -- 9. Tabea Alexa LINHARD: Adelita's Radical Act of Counter-Writing -- 10. Simon BARKER: Dressing up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture -- 11. Joan CURBET: Repressing the Amazon: Cross-Dressing and Militarism in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene -- III. MODERN TIMES: REDRESSING OLD WOUNDS -- 12. Jenny HARTLEY: Warriors and Healers, Impostors and Mothers: Betty Miller's On the Side of the Angels -- 13. Maria Antònio OLIVER: "Sangre Fértil"/Fertile Blood: Migratory Crossings, War and Healing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera -- 14. Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a Non-Combatant War Poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop -- 15. Simon PHILO: Breaking the Silence, Crossing the Line: Women Veteran Poets of the Vietnam War -- 16. Kathleen BRADY, John BRIGGS, Edward A. HAGAN: The Enemy is 'Us': Misconstruing the Real war in The Deer Hunter and Other Post-Vietnam War Narratives -- 17. Claire TYLEE: "Name upon Name": Myth, Ritual and the Past in Recent Irish Plays Referring to the Great War -- Notes on Contributors.