Introduction: The Afterlife of Commemoration

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: The Afterlife of Commemoration 1
7. Chapter 1 Material Boys: Lives of the Dead and the Objects of Biography 33
8. Chapter 2 Sorley’s Travels: The Afterlife of a World War I Poet 72
9. Chapter 3 Posthumous Was a Woman: War Memorials and Woolf’s Dead Poets Society 120
10. Chapter 4 Absent from Memory: Shot at Dawn and the Spectacle of Belated Remembrance 158
11. Notes 195
12. Bibliography 243
13. Index 257