Download or read book Commemorative Modernisms written by Alice Kelly and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the key questions of modern literature was the problem of what to do with the war dead. Through a series of case studies focusing on nurse narratives, Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, H.D., and Virginia Woolf, as well as visual and material culture, this book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlie British and American literary modernism."--