“They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body
(2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body. Paper presented at International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
Richard Aldington’s poems in Images of War (1919) return insistently to the impact of the First World War on the male body. Drawing on theoretical work about bodies in war such as Joanna Bourke’s Dismembering the Male (1996), I argue that Aldington’s... Read More about “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body.