Carol Acton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5746786 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carol Acton |
| PRENOMES | Carol |
| SOBRENOME | Acton |
| ASSINATURA | ACTON C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | St. Jerome's University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Time to die many times”
For young couples separated during the First World War, letters would become the primary means of maintaining their relationship. The narrative of time, both the subjective experience of time and the constant awareness of clock time, is strikingly visible throughout a range of correspondence and is central to how these writers negotiate their relationship through years of separation. This paper explores how the pain of separation was measured thr…
Words and the First World War, by Julian Walker
The most striking aspect of this work is its extraordinary scope of research and consequent breadth of material. The author, Julian Walker, draws on a wide range of sources from which to survey word use and language during the First World War and its aftermath, using soldiers’ letters, diaries and memoirs, nurses’ diaries, trench journals and home-front newspapers. This range, both of primary sources and of the language Walker uncovers, makes the…
Obsessed by the Obscenity of War’
This article discusses the traumatic nature of war nursing represented in two poems by Mary Borden written to her lover during the time she nursed in France, and in Lesley Smith’s memoir, Four Years out of Life (1931). Both writers draw on their medical environment for metaphors to articulate the psychological trauma of their work. In both instances, their representation of fragmented bodies and minds reflects the nurse’s inability to impose cont…
Writing the Eastern Front
In British Women of the Eastern Front, Angela K. Smith explores a long neglected area of women’s experience in the First World War—the Eastern Front. She does so by taking a particularly useful app
Working in a world of hurt
Working in a World of Hurt uncovers and analyses the range of responses to psychological trauma by male and female medical personnel in wartime in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Until now, academic and popular studies have focused on the trauma experienced by soldiers and civilians, saying very little about the mental strain endured by their healers. Acton & Potter seek to understand the subjective experiences of British, American and Canadia…
These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain”
“These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain”: Subjective Experience, Trauma, and Resilience in First World War Writings by Medical Personnel Carol Acton (bio) and Jane Potter (bio) In “Mental Cases,” First World War poet Wilfred Owen depicted the “men whose minds the Dead have ravished,”1 and in “Strange Meeting,” pointed again to the psychological suffering engendered by war: “Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.”2 What…
Stepping into history’
This article examines two very different wartime diary accounts by Irish women, Romie Lambkin, a driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and Mary Morris, who nursed in England, France and Belgium. Both texts assert the legitimacy of the Irishwoman's wartime story through consciously placing themselves in history, affirmed by the difference between their ‘real’ existence as participants in the war, and the ‘unreal’ Eire, outside history and r…
Writing and Waiting
The unpublished letters exchanged between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton during the First World War, and Brittain’s diary of the period, show the extent to which men’s and women’s war experiences were interdependent, thus collapsing those binary oppositions of home and front, women and men, within which we write war. In these texts, the woman Brittain defines as ‘waiting at home’ cannot be divorced from the official war arena ‐ the front. Furt…
Writing and Waiting
The unpublished letters exchanged between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton during the First World War, and Brittain’s diary of the period, show the extent to which men’s and women’s war experiences were interdependent, thus collapsing those binary oppositions of home and front, women and men, within which we write war. In these texts, the woman Brittain defines as ‘waiting at home’ cannot be divorced from the official war arena ‐ the front. Furt…
Writing and Waiting
The unpublished letters exchanged between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton during the First World War, and Brittain’s diary of the period, show the extent to which men’s and women’s war experiences were interdependent, thus collapsing those binary oppositions of home and front, women and men, within which we write war. In these texts, the woman Brittain defines as ‘waiting at home’ cannot be divorced from the official war arena ‐ the front. Furt…
Stepping into history’
This article examines two very different wartime diary accounts by Irish women, Romie Lambkin, a driver in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and Mary Morris, who nursed in England, France and Belgium. Both texts assert the legitimacy of the Irishwoman's wartime story through consciously placing themselves in history, affirmed by the difference between their ‘real’ existence as participants in the war, and the ‘unreal’ Eire, outside history and r…
These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain”
“These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain”: Subjective Experience, Trauma, and Resilience in First World War Writings by Medical Personnel Carol Acton (bio) and Jane Potter (bio) In “Mental Cases,” First World War poet Wilfred Owen depicted the “men whose minds the Dead have ravished,”1 and in “Strange Meeting,” pointed again to the psychological suffering engendered by war: “Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.”2 What…
Working in a world of hurt
Working in a World of Hurt uncovers and analyses the range of responses to psychological trauma by male and female medical personnel in wartime in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Until now, academic and popular studies have focused on the trauma experienced by soldiers and civilians, saying very little about the mental strain endured by their healers. Acton & Potter seek to understand the subjective experiences of British, American and Canadia…
Writing the Eastern Front
In British Women of the Eastern Front, Angela K. Smith explores a long neglected area of women’s experience in the First World War—the Eastern Front. She does so by taking a particularly useful app
Obsessed by the Obscenity of War’
This article discusses the traumatic nature of war nursing represented in two poems by Mary Borden written to her lover during the time she nursed in France, and in Lesley Smith’s memoir, Four Years out of Life (1931). Both writers draw on their medical environment for metaphors to articulate the psychological trauma of their work. In both instances, their representation of fragmented bodies and minds reflects the nurse’s inability to impose cont…
Words and the First World War, by Julian Walker
The most striking aspect of this work is its extraordinary scope of research and consequent breadth of material. The author, Julian Walker, draws on a wide range of sources from which to survey word use and language during the First World War and its aftermath, using soldiers’ letters, diaries and memoirs, nurses’ diaries, trench journals and home-front newspapers. This range, both of primary sources and of the language Walker uncovers, makes the…
“Time to die many times”
For young couples separated during the First World War, letters would become the primary means of maintaining their relationship. The narrative of time, both the subjective experience of time and the constant awareness of clock time, is strikingly visible throughout a range of correspondence and is central to how these writers negotiate their relationship through years of separation. This paper explores how the pain of separation was measured thr…
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