Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Rebecca West: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Return of the Soldier
Appendix A: Textual Variants
- Opening Passage of The Return of the Soldier, from the American Edition, Century Co. (1918)
- Letter by Cousin Frank, from the American Edition, Century Co. (1918)
Appendix B: World War I Poetry
- Rupert Brooke
- “The Soldier” (1914)
- Jessie Pope
- “The Call” (1915)
- Madeline Ida Bedford
- “Munition Wages” (1917)
- Wilfred Owen
- “Mental Cases” (1918, 1920)
- “Disabled” (1917, 1920)
- Siegfried Sassoon
- “The Death Bed” (1918)
- “Does It Matter?” (1918)
- Amy Lowell
- “September, 1918” (1919)
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- “April Night 1915 (for L. de C.-C.)” (1918)
- “Platoon Commander” (1918)
- Max Jacob
- “1914” (1923)
- “War” (1923)
- T.S. Eliot
- “Gerontion” (1920)
- Ezra Pound
- From “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920)
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
- “8” (1916)
- Marianne Moore
- “Reinforcements” (1921)
- “The Fish” (1921)
Appendix C: World War I Prose
- D.H. Lawrence, “With the Guns” (1914)
- Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall” (1917)
- Rebecca West, “Woman Worship: War, Peace and the Future by Ellen Key” (13 April 1917)
- Rebecca West, “Hands That War: The Night Shift” (1916)
- From Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That (1929)
Appendix D: World War I Visual Art
- Paintings
- C.R.W. Nevinson, “A Bursting Shell” (1915)
- Wyndham Lewis, “A Battery Shelled” (1919)
- Paul Nash, “We Are Making a New World” (1918)
- William Roberts, “A Shell Dump, France” (1918–19)
- William Orpen, “Zonnebeke” (1918)
- British World War I Propaganda Posters
- “Take Up the Sword of Justice”
- “Women of Britain Say—‘Go!’”
- “Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps”
- “Daddy, What Did YOU Do in the Great War?”
- “The Greatest Mother in the World”
- Norman Price’s Illustrations for the Century Co. Magazine Version of The Return of the Soldier (1918)
- World War I Photography
Appendix E: W.H.R. Rivers, “The Repression of War Experience” (1918)
Appendix F: From Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews of The Return of the Soldier
- Robert Lynd, “Miss Rebecca West’s Novel,” The Daily News (23 May 1918)
- Lawrence Gilman, “Rebecca West,” The North American Review (May 1918)
- “The Return of the Soldier,” The Independent (13 April 1918)
- Q.K. [unidentified], “Rebecca West’s First Novel,” The New Republic (23 March 1918)
- Henry B. Fuller, “Rebecca West—Novelist,” The Dial (28 March 1918)
- Doris Webb, “‘Something Saner Than Sanity’: The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West,” The Publishers’ Weekly (16 February 1918)
- “The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West,” The Scotsman (23 May 1918)
- “The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West,” The New York Times (10 March 1918)
- Rebecca West, “The Return of the Soldier,” The Observer (24 June 1928)
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