Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others

Genevieve Brassard (University of Portland)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1916

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United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

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The first British novel to describe shell-shock and its effects on civilians as well as soldiers, Rose Macaulay’s

Non-Combatants and Others

is a classic of war literature deserving of more critical attention than it has received so far in literary histories of the modern period. Written and published

in medias res

, before the war’s outcome could be known, Macaulay’s novel captures the home front

zeitgeist

, from propaganda and rumors of German atrocity to the effects of censorship on artists, to the emergent pacifist movement and the many women involved in it. In her critical study on Macaulay, Alice Crawford notes that the writer’s war fiction “registers a decisive jolt”, and she suggests that the war “released her at last from the bonds of the conventional ‘Edwardian’…

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Citation: Brassard, Genevieve. "Non-Combatants and Others". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 May 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30296, accessed 22 November 2024.]

Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others

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