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Kate McLoughlin - Martha Gellhorn: the War Writer in the Field and in the Text - 9780719076367 - V9780719076367
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Martha Gellhorn: the War Writer in the Field and in the Text

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Description for Martha Gellhorn: the War Writer in the Field and in the Text Hardback. St. Louis-born Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. In this first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism, Kate McLoughlin makes the connection between Gellhorn's intrepid progress through the war zone and her textual construction of the woman war reporter. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.

Martha Gellhorn was the doyenne of twentieth century war correspondence. Opinionated, honest and unafraid, she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Reagan’s wars in Central America in the 1980s. Martha Gellhorn: the war writer in the field and in the text is the first critical study of her Second World War fiction and journalism.

Often overlooked in accounts of war literature is the writer’s precise position in relation to battle and his or her resultant standing in the text. Kate McLoughlin traces Gellhorn’s daring attempts to access the war zone and her constructions of the woman war ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076367
SKU
V9780719076367
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Ref
99-15

About Kate McLoughlin
Kate McLoughlin is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow -- .

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