%0 Journal Article
%T More than a War Correspondent: Edith Wharton¡¯s chronicles about French civilians in the Great War and the beginning of citizen journalism
%A Yolanda Morat¨® Agrafojo
%J Oce¨¢nide
%D 2013
%I Sociedad Espa?ola de Estudios Literarios de Cultura Popular SELICUP
%X Neglected during decades, Edith Wharton¡¯s literary production on the First World War has finally received due attention during these last years. McLoughlin¡¯s scholarly work (2005) on The Marne, A Son at the Front and ¡°Writing a War Story¡±, together with Olin-Ammentorp¡¯s Edith Wharton¡¯s Writings from the Great War (2004) have offered new documented sources and a deep analysis on how the Great War affected Wharton¡¯s fiction. However, within these sources a distinction should be made: Wharton¡¯s short stories differ greatly from her essays and other non-fiction pieces published contemporaneously. Whereas in her fiction the Great War becomes a character itself, in her non-fiction writing Wharton abandons her narrative voice to develop a protagonist voice. In fact, some of these pieces can be read as war chronicles that advance the most significant features of war correspondents and citizen journalists throughout the 20th century.
%K non-fiction
%K war articles
%K war correspondents
%K citizen journalism
%K First World War
%U http://oceanide.netne.net/articulos/art5-8.pdf