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MODERNISM HISTORY and theFIRST WORLD WAR

Trudi Tate

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Modernism, History

and the First World War

Trudi Tate

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Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction

I. Witness to war

1. War neurotics The sinking of the Lusitania HD’s war îction Kipling, ‘Mary Postgate’ 2. Propaganda lies Atrocity stories Propaganda exposed Rumour in Parade’s End

II. Corporeal fantasies

3. Vile bodies Body politics: Barbusse, Under Fire Repression and fascination: Blunden, Undertones of War Bodies in pieces These men were men Dead women Bodies in the earth The violence of Melanie Klein 4. Visible differences Sexual difference: theories of the visible Soldiers in Lawrence Lawrence, ‘The Blind Man’ Faulkner, Soldiers’ Pay

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III. War and politics

5. The tank and the manufacture of consent Tank banks From Little Willie to Mother Tank writing Wilfred Bion 6. Mrs Dallowayand the Armenian Question Postwar satire The Armenian Question The Prime Minister Select bibliography

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Acknowledgements

For the Irst edition, 1998

Many people have assisted me in the writing of this book. I am particularly grateful to Gillian Beer for her generous advice throughout the project and to Maud Ellmann for her encouragement and support. Thanks are due to Sue Cheshire, David Dickinson, Ian Donaldson, David Glover, Mary Hammond, Mike Hammond, Mary Jacobus, John Kerrigan, Vasant Kumar, Sarah Meer, Rod Mengham, Mark Micale, Peter Middleton, Ian Patterson, Lawrence Rainey, Suzanne Raitt, Karen Seymour, Helen Small, Hugh Stevens, John Tate, Toni Tate, Gill Thomas, Pam Thurschwell, David Trotter, the late Stephen Wall, and Jay Winter for comments and advice. The Modernism Seminar at the Centre for English Studies, London, has been a constant source of inspiration and debate; thanks to Claire Buck, Carolyn Burdett, Rebecca Dawson, Geoffrey Gilbert, and Lyndsey Stonebridge. The book could not have been completed without the intellectual support and warm generosity of Con Coroneos. The staff of the University Library and English Faculty Library, Cambridge; the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Hartley Library, University of Southampton; and the Imperial War Museum photographic department have been unfailingly courteous and help-ful. Darwin College, Cambridge, and the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton provide înancial help with my research, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, provided me with a Visiting Fellowship and a lively environment in which to complete the writing in 1997. Portions of chapter 1 were published in Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham, eds,Image and Power(London: Longman, 1996) and in Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate, eds,Women’s Fiction of the Great War(Oxford: Clarendon, 1997); a version of chapter 2 appeared inEssays in Criticism(1997); parts of chapter 5 were published inModernism/ Modernity(1997) andWomen: A Cultural Review(1997); a version

Modernism, History and the First World War

of chapter 6 was published inTextual Practice (1994). Permission to reproduce the cover image and the plates in chapter 5 was kindly granted by the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London.

For the second edition, 2013

Thanks to colleagues and students at Clare Hall, where I was elected a Fellow in 2001, and to the Faculty of English, Cambridge, for their bright and supportive intellectual environments. Colleagues and students in the Institute for English and American Studies at the J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, provided insightful comments on this work; thanks to Daniel Dornhofer, Astrid Erll, Klaus Hofmann, Stefanie Lotz, and Harald Raykowski. Thanks also to Gillian Beer, Evelyn Chan, Santanu Das, Alison Hennegan, Alex Houen, Jane Potter, Hugh Stevens, and Bobbie Wells for continuing conversations and wise advice. I am particularly grateful to Irene Hills and Klaus Hofmann for their kind help in preparing this second edition of the book. Finally, heartfelt thanks to Rosa Tate for making it all worthwhile.

Permission to reproduce the cover image and the plates in chapter 5 was kindly granted by the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London.

Introduction

In a scene excised fromThe Years(1937), Virginia Woolf describes a group of passengers sitting on the London Tube in 1914, desperate for news of the war. ‘Three British Cruisers Sunk’, they read, and they scramble through the newspaper, looking for more information. But there is no more news, only ‘items’: triplets born, strawberries 1 picked, ‘that was all’.Twenty years after the event, Woolf remembers the First World War as a time of darkness and silence in which no one, including the combatants, knew what was going on nor why they 2 were involved. Whole nations found themselves bearing witness to events they did not understand and, by and large, could not see. Writing in 1915, Freud remarked that he was standing too close to 3 the war to see it properly. As time passed, many writers struggled to express what they had seen—or not seen—in the event that was to shape the history of the entire twentieth century. This is a study of the relationship between modernist îction, the First World War, and cultural history. It explores the ways in which writing attempted to bear witness to the trauma of the war and its consequences. All the works I will discuss are concerned with the distinction between witnessing and seeing, and they worry about how one is placed in relation to a history one has lived through and not seen, or seen only partially, through a fog of ignorance, fear, confu-4 sion, and lies. This question troubled combatants as well as civil-

1 Woolf, material excised from the galley proofs ofThe Years (1937), rpt in the appendix toThe Years, ed. Hermione Lee (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 418. See also Anna Snaith’s annotated edition ofThe Years(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 2 Woolf,The Years, 266. 3 Freud, ‘Thoughts for the Time on War and Death’ (1915), Pelican Freud Library, 12,Civilization, Society and Religion(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985), 61. 4 Referring to the trauma of Nazism, Shoshana Felman argues that ‘our era [is] an age of testimony, an age in which witnessing itself has undergone a major