Kielty, D (2021) “For at her touch our lives had at last fallen into a pattern”: tactility in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier. Feminist Modernist Studies, 4 (1). pp. 53-70. ISSN 2469-2921
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between tactility and point of view in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier. It uncovers how etiquette books, hand-care articles and interior design copy regulate the narrator’s sensory and social perspective, arguing that her narration reconstructs and critiques the figuration of feminine tactility as an instrument of social control – one which I show was regularly employed during the Great War.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a journal article published in Feminist Modernist Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Touch; gender; class; point of view; Great War; First World War |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2021 16:21 |
Last Modified: | 27 May 2022 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/24692921.2020.1848333 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173173 |