Tylee, Claire

About the author: Claire Tylee is senior lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, West London. Although she has published on Shakespeare and on 20th century novelists, she is best-known for her book, The Great War and Women’s Consciousness (19

Women, the First World War and the Dramatic Imagination International Essays (1914-1999)

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Part of the significance of this collection of essays comes from its geographical and historical spread: it ranges globally across drama from France, Germany and Australia as well as UK and USA, and it demonstrates the continuing effects of the war o the cultural memories of the disparate nations involved, including Ireland, Germany, Canada and Scotland at the end of the 20th century. It not only makes available original historical research, the results of delving in the police censorship archives in Paris and in the Birmingham Reference Library’s Great War collection, it also demonstrates the fruitfulness of carious critical approaches.