Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his art
'Alice Kelly's new edition of the journalism of Edith Wharton in First World War France is a valuable contribution to the literary history of the conflict. Here is a novelist, using all her skills as an eye witness to tell unknowing Americans of the staggering nature of a war the world had never seen before. A wonderful text, introduced with wit and authority.'
- Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University
This study provides an entirely new...