Abstract
This book focuses on the way women experienced and depicted the First World War in their writing, in terms of the impact of the immense casualties, as well as the war’s questionable justification. It suggests women’s writing was to play a key role in the subsequent mourning for and commemoration of the dead that was to be integral to post-war British culture. In doing so, the book asks two important questions. First, whether women and men saw this commemoration differently and second, whether women’s modernist literary output was substantially influenced and changed by the impact of the deaths and the process of commemoration. It is organized through several case studies on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf.
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Publication details
- DOI
- 10.53542/2522-2279.1410
- Journal
- Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 16(1), 1-4
- Publisher
- Sultan Qaboos University
- Open access
- Gold open access
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cite this article
APA 7
Saeed, A. A. (2025). A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 16(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.53542/2522-2279.1410
MLA 9
Saeed, Alan Ali. "A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 16, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.53542/2522-2279.1410.
Chicago (author–date)
Saeed, Alan Ali. 2025. "A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 16 (1): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.53542/2522-2279.1410.
Harvard
Saeed, A. A. (2025) 'A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp', Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 16(1), pp. 1-4. doi:10.53542/2522-2279.1410.
Vancouver
Saeed AA. A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. 2025;16(1):1-4. doi:10.53542/2522-2279.1410
IEEE
A. A. Saeed, "A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp," Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-4, 2025, doi: 10.53542/2522-2279.1410.