Overview
- Charts the relationship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray and Harry Logan, through their personal correspondance from 1911-1919
- Explores conflicted and complex attempts to frame male and female self-identity during a period of cultural flux
- Demonstrates that ‘normative’ heterosexuality was not a fixed category in Edwardian society, but had to be constantly rearticulated
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
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Reviews
“Historians of gender, sexuality, and religion will find a great deal to interest them in this valuable volume.” (Mo Moulton, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (1), January, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Michael Gauvreau is Professor of History at McMaster University, Canada. Previous publications include The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution (2005), which was awarded the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history in 2006, and The Hand of God: Claude Ryan and the Fate of Canadian Liberalism, 1925-1971 (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bodies, Love, and Faith in the First World War
Book Subtitle: Dardanella and Peter
Authors: Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72835-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72834-6Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10273-9Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72835-3Published: 25 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 319
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural History, Social History, History of Modern Europe, Gender and Sexuality