Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War

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Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War

Edited by: Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 8 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

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Ralf Schneider, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
0 Introduction Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Systematic Questions: Genres and Perspectives
1 The First World War in Poetry Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
3 The Novel of the First World War Rainer Emig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
4 The Short Story of the First World War Ann-Marie Einhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
5 The First World War in British Narrative Film and Television: From Visual Archive to Filmic Imagination Claudia Sternberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
6 Gendering the First World War: Masculinity and Femininity in First World War Literary and Cultural Production Angela K. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
7 Indian Writings of the First World War Samraghni Bonnerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Part II: Close Readings
8 Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929) Andrew Frayn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
9 Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates (1918) and The Happy Foreigner (1920) Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
10 Arnold Bennett, The Pretty Lady (1918) George Simmers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
11 Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (1928) and War Poetry Ralf Schneider and Jane Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
12 Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone (1929) and Sarah Gay (1931) Barbara Schaff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
13 Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933) Carol Acton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
14 Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928) Andrew Frayn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
15 Robert Graves, War Poetry and Goodbye To all That (1929) Jane Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
16 Ivor Gurney, War Poetry Philip Lancaster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
17 Thomas Hardy, War Poetry Daniel Dornhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
18 Storm Jameson, That Was Yesterday (1932) and Mirror in Darkness (1934–1936) Carol Acton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
19 David Jones, In Parenthesis (1937) Samantha Rayner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
20 Rudyard Kipling, Poetry and Short Stories of the First World War Harry Ricketts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
21 Vernon Lee, Satan the Waster (1920) and Peace with Honour (1915) Amanda Gagel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
22 Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others (1916) and Other War Writings Kate Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
23 Wilfred Owen, War Poetry Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	381
24 Ernest Raymond, Tell England (1922) and Other Writings George Simmers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
25 Isaac Rosenberg, War Poetry Daniel Dornhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
26 Siegfried Sassoon, War Poems (1919) and The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1937) Marcello Giovanelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
27 R.C. Sherriff, Journey’s End (1928) Ralf Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
28 May Sinclair, A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915), War Poetry and Fiction Carol Acton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
29 Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Years (1937) and Three Guineas (1938) Marlene A. Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459
30 Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop, Oh What a Lovely War (1963) Jessica Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
31 Susan Hill, Strange Meeting (1971) Anja Tschörtner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
32 Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (1993) Christina Spittel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	507
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	515
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	527

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

September 20, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9783110422467

Hardcover published on:

September 20, 2021

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110426670

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

12

Main content:

528

Illustrations:

3

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467

eBook ISBN: 9783110422467

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110426670

Keywords for this book

World War I; British literature and film; War Writing

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Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes

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