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In their writings composed during the Second World War and the political turmoil of the 1930s in Europe, Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, and Rebecca West interrogated the limitations of political history with its exclusionary emphasis on diplomacy and military campaigns. All four women writers underscored the indivisibility of social, cultural, and political histories. In addition, prompted by their empathy with people in occupied countries, they narrated history from the standpoint of the non-victorious, a perspective that has rarely been articulated by American and British authors. The challenge that these authors posed to traditional notions of history anticipated insights expressed several decades after the war by social, feminist, and postcolonial historians.
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Lee Gandolfi
reviewed Perspectives of four women writers on the Second World War on June 08, 2015
Perspectives of four women writers on the Second World War
Impossibly bulky and ultra-erudite.
I came into this because I wanted to get more of Edmund Wilson, not so much for the thirst of knowledge about the Civil War.
I learned a lot. The Battle Hymn of The Republic was written as a sort of response to a set of Calvinist fever-dreams, Wilson's comparison of Lincoln with Lenin and Bismark (!), Stonewall Jackson's vacant inhumanity, Sidney Lanier's verse and Ambrose Bierce's morbid musings. The portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes is brillaintly done, as is the one of Lee and of Jefferson Davis.
There are many small, tucked-away anecdotes within this text that wouldn't be out of place in something by Dickens or Balzac. Wilson had a thing about tiny cameos in his grand historical texts that neve cease to interest me and make me intrigued and make me chuckle.
If you are a Civil War buff this will pay back your time and attention many times over.
If not, just hang on and enjoy the ride.
The introduction is extremely wise, deep, and prophetic...."nations inhaling other nations like slugs..." watch out...
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