Contents

pp v-v

List of Figures

pp vi-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-xii

Dedication

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: A Culture Surcharged with Death

pp 1-36

Part One - Death in Proximity: Wartime Commemorations

pp 37-38

1 - The Shock of the Dead: Deathbeds, Burial Rites and Cemetery Scenes in Nurses’ Narratives

pp 39-80

2 - Uncomfortable Propaganda: Edith Wharton’s Wartime Writings

pp 81-118

Part Two - Grief at a Distance: Civilian Modernisms

pp 119-120

3 - Mansfield Mobilised: Katherine Mansfield, the Great War and Military Discourse

pp 121-153

4 - The Civilian War Novel: H.D.’s Avant-Garde War Dead

pp 154-190

Part Three - Modernist Death: Postwar Remembrance

pp 191-192

5 - Modernist Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield in the Postwar World

pp 193-229

Conclusion: Modernism’s Ghosts

pp 230-243

Bibliography

pp 244-284

Index

pp 285-297