Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916

Woodward, G.

Abstract

In October 1914, the English writer and publisher Douglas Goldring was invalided out of the British Army. By 1916, he had become a conscientious objector and moved to Ireland, where he lived for the next two years, witnessing the aftermath of the Easter Rising. Illuminating connections between the pacifist movement in Britain and Irish Republicanism, his writings of this period – including two Irish travelogues and a propagandist semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, The Fortune (1917) – disclose transnational and transcultural networks of resistance and dissidence, and show how the Rising and its aftermath helped to radicalise pacifist writers in London.

Citation

Woodward, G. (2017). Douglas Goldring: ‘An Englishman’ and 1916. Literature and History, 26(2), 195-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197317724666

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Sep 5, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Deposit Date: Sep 20, 2018
• Journal: Literature and History
• Print ISSN: 0306-1973
• Electronic ISSN: 2050-4594
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 195-212
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197317724666
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1314152