Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth Author: Vera Brittain
Publisher: Hachette UK

'Sublimely moving... this is a truly great book' DAILY MAIL 'A heartbreaking account of the impact of the First World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking ...

English Literature

English Literature Author: Steven Croft
Publisher: Letts and Lonsdale

... Testament of Youth ⚫ encounter extracts from prose texts as part of your synoptic assessment . Prose texts can take many different forms but very often many of the techniques of the novelist are also the techniques of the non - fiction ...

Inside Out

Inside Out Author: Teresa Gómez Reus
Publisher: Rodopi

... Testament of Youth Aránzazu Usandizaga abstract Since 1990 critics have proved that women considerably enlarged their territory during WWI. Their intrusions were physical as well as moral, imaginative and literary. Modernism encouraged ...

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century

Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century Author: Angela K. Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press

Textual Representations Angela K. Smith. 15 Testament of Youth , p . 582 . 16 D. Healy , Images of Trauma : From Hysteria to Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder ( London : Faber & Faber ... Testament of Youth , pp . 536 , 496 Andrea Peterson 51.

Self-portraits

Self-portraits Author: Andrea Peterson
Publisher: Peter Lang

... Testament of Youth , Brittain confesses that she experienced ' the horrible delusion ' that her ' face was changing ' and ' was ashamed , to the point of agony , of the sinister transformation which seemed [ ... ] to be impending ' ( TY ...

Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth Author: Vera Brittain
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Why This Book? "Testament of Youth" stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit amidst the horrors of war.

Nurse Writers of the Great War

Nurse Writers of the Great War Author: Christine Hallett
Publisher: Manchester University Press

... Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (London: Virago Press, 2004 [1933]): 141. 24 Brittain, Testament of Youth (2004), 179. 25 Vera Brittain, Chronicle of Youth (London: Phoenix Press, 2000 [1981]): 230 ...

Publishers, Readers and the Great War

Publishers, Readers and the Great War Author: Vincent Trott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

... Testament of Youth (1929; repr., London: Penguin, 2005), 167. See Chapter 2 for a more detailed discussion of the emergence of this myth. Brittain, Testament of Youth, 276. Watson, Fighting Different Wars, 259,254. Brittain, Testament ...

Between Friends

Between Friends Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Hachette UK

... Testament of Youth to Harold Latham of Macmillan, who buys it WH publishes novel Mandoa, Mondoa! WH called to father's bedside in Yorkshire VB finishes writing Testament of Youth VB learns that Victor Gollancz has accepted Testament of ...

British Identity in World War I

British Identity in World War I Author: Mary K. Laurents
Publisher: Lexington Books

... Youth, 307. 21. Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, 468. 22. Lambert, Unquiet Souls, 218. 23. Erikson, Everything In Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood, 209. 24. Erikson, Everything In Its Path: Destruction of ...