Touch and intimacy in First World War literature / Santanu Das.
The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical con...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
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2005.
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