The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I

Article by Santanu Das for the World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings project.

This is a revised extract from the chapter ‘Kiss me, Hardy: the dying kiss in the First World War Trenches’ in Santanu Das, Touch and Intimacy in <em>First World War Literature</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2005). An earlier version of the article appeared as ‘Kiss me, Hardy: Gender and Gesture in the First World War Trenches’ in Modernism/Modernity, 9.1 (Jan 2002).

Date Published: 28 August 2012
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Contributors: Santanu Das
In Collection(s): Contexts, Poetry
Keywords: WW1, 1914-1918, poetry, memory
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