Topics include: nurses' memoirs and autobiographies from The Great War; masculinity and violence in H. R. Haggard's romances of adventure; the hero in Edwardian popular fiction; militarism in early modern culture; cross-dressing and militarism in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene; non-combatant war poetry; women veteran poets of the Vietnam War; recent Irish plays referring to the Great War; etc.