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Expanding the literary canon: nurses' memoirs of World War I.

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Margaret Randolph Higonnet. Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. x + 161 pp. Notes. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55553-485-6; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55553-484-8.

In recent years a number of authors have drawn attention to women's experiences of the First World War. Various anthologies and critical texts have also challenged traditional definition of "war literature" by defining and defending the place of women writers in the Great War's literary canon. (1) With the publication of Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War editor Margaret Higonnet (a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and an Affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies) makes an important contribution to this effort. In this affordable volume (suitable for undergraduate classes), Higonnet brings to contemporary readers excerpts of works by two American women authors whose insightful and evocative writings about their experience on the Western front have not been readily available since the inter-war period. A useful glossary of French terms is included....

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