Soldier's Heart: Literary Men, Literary Women, and the Great War

Abstract

This essay is an abbreviated version of a chapter in "No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century," a sequel to The Madwoman in the Attic which I am writing in collaboration with Susan Gubar, to whose inspiration and advice I am very much indebted throughout the piece. The essay also incorporates and elaborates upon some material originally presented in my "Costumes of the Mind: Transvestism as Metaphor in Modern Literature," Critical Inquiry 7, no. 2 (Winter 1980): 391-417, and 1 wish to thank the editors for permission to reprint these passages. In addition, I am grateful to Elaine Showalter, Elliot Gilbert, Garrett Stewart, and the members of the Summer Seminar for College Teachers that Susan Gubar and I codirected in 1981, all of whom have given me useful advice and essential support. Also, I want in particular to thank Gayle Greene (at Scripps College) and David Savage (at Lewis and Clark College), who shared with me two brilliant student papers by Tamara Jones (Scripps) and Elizabeth Cookson (Lewis and Clark), projects whose revisionary research renews my confidence in the contribution women's studies has made to the undergraduate curriculum. Finally, all illustrations in this essay are reproduced with the kind permission of the Imperial War Museum in London.