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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Vera Brittain"”.
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Why Was the RAF So Committed to the "Area Bombing" of Germany in the Second World War?
… obstacle to the building of a better world.' Vera Brittain, Seed of Chaos. This study will seek to explain why the British Royal Air Force embarked on a policy of systematic destruction of German cities during the Second World War. The first chapters will focus on the origins of the policy of …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
… comedy, in my discussions of Mansfield, Woolf, Vera Brittain, and James Joyce. It is my hope that this focus on ritual in Modernist and interwar texts will provide a new perspective on the construction of narrative and genre, particularly in its relation to the representation of the individual, …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… to identification with or against state power. Vera Brittain chronicled her changing attitudes toward work before, during, and after the war in her memoir Testament of Youth (1933), which, I argue, cannot be understood without attending to her complex and intertwined work as a student at Oxford, …