| The Return of the Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt's 1917 Diary Contributor(s): Secor, Marie (Author), Secor, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0920604137 ISBN-13: 9780920604137 Publisher: English Literary Studies OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 828.912 |
| LCCN: 85005495 |
| Series: Els Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.32 lbs) 100 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The historical setting of this diary offers us a glimpse of England at war through the eyes of a person who, though affected by it, did not cultivate political consciousness. Hunt emerges from her diary as a woman caught between unreconcilable forces: her desire for respectability and her pursuit of amorous sensation; her shrewd insight into her and Ford's character and her self-destructiveness in protracting a relationship she knows is doomed to failure; her self-dramatizing instinct, always ready to step back and watch herself in action, and her spontaneity; her pride and her abjectness; her wit and her sadness. |