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The literary canon of World War 1 - celebrated for realising the experience of an entire generation - ignores writing by women. To the sorrows that war has always brought them - the loss of husbands, lovers, brothers - the Great War added a revolutionary knowledge. And all the time they wrote - letters, poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs. This volume of mutually reflective essays brings this writing into literary focus and ensures that women's recent history and literature are neither forgotten nor undervalued.

European literature --- War in literature --- Women in literature --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Women and war --- Littérature européenne --- Guerre dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Première guerre mondiale --- Femmes et guerre --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Women --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature et guerre --- Femmes --- Histoire --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- War in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- Littérature européenne --- Guerre dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Première guerre mondiale --- Littérature et guerre --- World War, 1914-1918 - Literature and the war --- European literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- European literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- Women and literature - Europe - History - 20th century

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In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte sought to impose an absolute political authority as First Consul for life, and emperor in 1804. A network of women authors connected with Germaine de Staël in Paris, Coppet, Berlin, and Florence maintained salons and addressed political conflicts in their novels, correspondence and theory. Nationalist histories, also written by salon members, reinforced their unified political agenda by emphasizing the heroic acts that guaranteed national freedom. Semiotics became the primary means of political propaganda and persuasion in the absence of legislative debate and women'

European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. --- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- In literature. --- Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. --- Nationalism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. --- Salons -- Europe -- History. --- Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. --- Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. --- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. --- Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. --- European literature --- Women and literature --- Salons --- Women --- Nationalism and literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- French salons --- Intellectual life --- Manners and customs --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Napoleon --- Staël, Madame de --- In literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Napoléon --- Bonaparte, Napoléon --- Bonapart, Napoleon, --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana --- Bonaparte, Napoleão --- Bonaparte, Napoleon --- Bonaparte, Napoleone --- Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, --- Buonaparte, Napoleon --- Na-pʻo-lun --- Nābuliyūn, --- Napoleone --- Napʻolleong, --- Napolun --- נפוליאון --- נפוליאון, --- نابليون --- بونابرت، نابليون، --- Būnābart, Nābuliyūn,