Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3137 |
Book Title | Rose Macaulay, gender, and modernity |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Editors | Macdonald, Kate |
Volume | 16 |
Page Range | 25-38 |
Series | Gender and Genre |
Chapter Number | 2 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISBN | 9781138206175 |
9781315465654 | |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.routledge.com/Rose-Macaulay-Gender-and-Modernity/Macdonald/p/book/9781138206175 |
Abstract | In 1916, Rose Macaulay worked in the Women’s Land Army on a farm near Cambridge as part of the female labour force made available by the government to farmers who had seen their usual labourers join the armed services. The series of poems she wrote during this period, collectively titled ‘On the Land: 1916’, are striking for their record of this wartime work, and for the ways in which the experience causes Macaulay to draw parallels between the physical contributions of both men and women, albeit in different contexts, to the war effort. Similarly, her novel Non-Combatants and Others (1916) makes important observations about the effects of war on civilians: that they feel helpless, angry, and anxious. This chapter will use the affective conditions of ‘futile rage’ and ‘hyperaesthesia’, as they are termed in the novel, to explore Macaulay’s wartime poetry and novel as a commentary on the impact of war on non-combatants, ultimately suggesting that the duty of women, the ‘others’, is to protest, rather than to protect, ignorance – of combatants and non-combatants alike. |
Keywords | Rose Macaulay, poetry, Non-Combatants and Others, First World War, women, anxiety, pacifism, affect, trauma |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470504. British and Irish literature |
470514. Literary theory | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4751/hyperaesthesia-and-futile-rage-gender-anxiety-and-protest-in-non-combatants-and-others
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