This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.

Autorentext
MARK D. LARABEE is Executive Editor of Joseph Conrad Today, and Assistant Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Inhalt
Introduction: Unsettled Space Military Mapping and Modernist Aesthetics: Blunden, Aldington, and Ford In Flanders with No Baedeker: Beaman, Forster, and Ford The Persistence of Landscape: Montague and West Fluid Front Lines: Conrad and Woolf Conclusion: The Presence of Landscape and the Meaning of History