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Carol Acton

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St. Jerome's University

World Wars: History, Literature, and ImpactMilitary history and social perspectivesMemory, Trauma, and CommemorationAutobiographical and Biographical WritingMemory, Trauma, and Testimony

Carol Acton works in World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact, Military history and social perspectives, Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration, Autobiographical and Biographical Writing, Memory, Trauma, and Testimony. Recorded institutional associations include St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo.

63Publications
138Citations
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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. Grief in Wartime

    2007 · 58 citations

  2. Diverting the Gaze: The Unseen Text in Women's War Writing

    2004 · 18 citations

  3. Working in a world of hurt

    2015 · 15 citations

  4. Writing and Waiting: The First World War Correspondence between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton

    1999 · 11 citations

  5. ‘Stepping into history’: reading the Second World War through Irish women's diaries

    2010 · 10 citations

  6. “These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain”: Subjective Experience, Trauma, and Resilience in First World War Writings by Medical Personnel

    2012 · 9 citations

  7. 13 Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)

    2021 · 4 citations

  8. Working in a world of hurt

    2016 · 2 citations

  9. 28 May Sinclair, A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915), War Poetry and Fiction

    2021 · 2 citations

  10. Best Boys And Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric Of Romance As Social Control In Wartime Magazines For Young Women

    2008 · 2 citations

  11. Mourning and Combat

    2007 · 1 citations

  12. “You Yourself are Here Now Looking over my Shoulder as I Write”: Emotional Dialogue and the Construction of a Shared Intimate Space in First World War Letters.

    2016 · 1 citations

  13. ‘Obsessed by the Obscenity of War’: Emotional and Physical Wounds in Mary Borden’s Poetry and Lesley Smith’sFour Years Out of Life

    2018 · 1 citations

  14. “The Delightful Sense of Personal Contact That Your Letter Aroused”

    2017 · 1 citations

  15. ‘Sticking It’: Resilience in the Life-Writing of Medical Personnel in the First World War

    2020 · 1 citations

  16. “I Begin to Feel as a Normal Being Should, in Spite of the Blood and Anguish in Which I Move”: American Women’s First World War Nursing Memoirs

    2013 · 1 citations

  17. “Kitchener’s Tourists”

    2015 · 1 citations

  18. Epilogue: ‘Mother to Mother’

    2007 · 0 citations

  19. For Women Must Weep

    2007 · 0 citations

  20. ‘These frightful sights would work havoc with one’s brain’

    2015 · 0 citations

  21. ‘Can’t Face the Graves Today’

    2007 · 0 citations

  22. Grieving the ‘Good’ War

    2007 · 0 citations

  23. ‘It was a tough life and I did all I could to lighten the men’s burden’

    2015 · 0 citations

  24. ‘You damn well just got on with your job’

    2015 · 0 citations

  25. Writing the Eastern Front

    2017 · 0 citations

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