| War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life. Through extensive archival and historical research, analyzing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis. |
| Santanu Das is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. |
| List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part Ⅰ TRENCHES 1 Slimescapes 2 Geographies of sense Part Ⅱ INTIMACIES 3 ‘Kiss me, Hardy’: the dying kiss in the First World War trenches 4 Wilfred Owen and the sense of touch Part Ⅲ WOUNDS 5 ‘The impotence of sympathy’: service and suffering in the nurses' memoirs 6 The operating theatre Afterword Bibliography Index |
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