Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature

Santanu Das

earliest edition we have, 2006 Cambridge University Press, 2006 hardcover 284 pages

"Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside close investigative readings of literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense...

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Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature edition · 2014 · Cambridge University Press · 9781107295575
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature edition · 2008 · Cambridge University Press · 284 pages · 9780521066877
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature hardcover · 2006 · Cambridge University Press · 284 pages · 9780521846035
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature edition · 2006 · Cambridge University Press · 286 pages · 9781306578097

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