Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

by Santanu Das

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The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521066875

ISBN13:9780521066877

Release Date:June 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:1.17 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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