Writers at War : Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden (Paperback)

Introduction 1 Ford Madox Ford’s Unrelatable Narrative of War Introduction The elusive ‘Muse of War’ Writing as ethical imperative From ethical injunction to aesthetic reinvention Conclusion: towards Parade’s End 2 ‘The Fantastic Dislocation of War’: May Sinclair’s Aporetic War Chronicle Introduction A war journal? ‘The high comedy of disaster’: Sinclair’s carnivalesque narrative From representational crisis to an alternative mimesis Conclusion 3 Writing Oneself at War: Siegfried Sassoon’s War Diaries Introduction The generic fluidity of Sassoon’s war diaries Writing a myth of oneself An instance of intensely layered writing: recounting the attack on Fontaine-les-Croisilles Conclusion 4 From the ‘Bleeding Edge’ of War: The Singular Voice of Mary Borden Introduction Writing in defiance of the conventional nurse figure A liminal geography of care Writing alienation Conclusion: modernism and mimesis Conclusion