Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany

By:

Jerry Palmer

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort. Jerry Palmer considers the memoirs in relationship to public opinion, collective memory and other women’s writing about the war. Through close-readings of the memoirs and their contexts, the book identifies themes present in the texts and considers the nurse memoir as rhetoric—examining to what extent the texts are promoting or countering arguments in the public sphere about their involvement or more widely about women’s position in society. Palmer explores the multiple contexts related to the nurse memoirs, including public response to volunteer wartime nursing, the organisation of the military health services of the three nations and their conduct in the war, and changes in the post-war organization of public health services and the professionalization of nursing.

Author Biography:

Jerry Palmer is the former Professor of Communications at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of seven other books on various aspects of literature, popular culture and the mass media. His Memories from the Frontline (Palgrave 2018) is an analysis of soldiers’ memoirs of the Great War.

Release date NZ

October 20th, 2021

Author

Jerry Palmer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2021

Illustrations

5 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 289 p. 5 illus.

Pages

289

Series

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

ISBN-13

9783030828745

Product ID

35153252

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