A novel, Enfilade simultaneously relates the stories of Alistair Preston, a young soldier in the Canadian army in Belgium during the First World War, and that of his fiancee and family in the Eastern Townships of Southern Quebec. Elspeth, his fiancee, is a school teacher and the Preston family are beef farmers. Told from several different points of view, Enfilade addresses the psychological, cultural and aesthetic implications of the Canadian experience in the Ypres Salient in 1917, and, more generally, in the First World War. Primary among the novel's concerns are the psychological change brought about by the experience of industrialised warfare and the resulting difficulty in regaining a sense of normality and home, both for the combatants themselves and for those to whom they returned, and the enormous gap created between the generation that fought in the war and that of their parents.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.68079 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Cooper, Marc A. |
| Contributors | Trehearne, Brian (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001403967, proquestno: AAIMM94326, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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