Posthumous Lives : : World War I and the Culture of Memory / / Bette London.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: London, Bette,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 30 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Afterlife of Commemoration --; Chapter 1 Material Boys: Lives of the Dead and the Objects of Biography --; Chapter 2 Sorley’s Travels: The Afterlife of a World War I Poet --; Chapter 3 Posthumous Was a Woman: War Memorials and Woolf’s Dead Poets Society --; Chapter 4 Absent from Memory: Shot at Dawn and the Spectacle of Belated Remembrance --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501762376; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501762376
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bette London.

Posthumous Lives explores the shifting significance of public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed in World War I—as well as the less well-remembered casualties of the war, including VADs, nurses, conscientious objectors, civilians, and soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice—and the compelling hold the First World War has had on the British imagination for a century. Using the concept of the posthumous life—the attempt to extend the presence of the dead in the lives of the living—Bette London demonstrates how this idea came to shape Britain's First World War memory practices and rituals.London draws on a diverse range of source materials—from sentimental memorabilia books commissioned by bereaved families and canonical works of literature and art by Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Edwin Lutyens to centenary memorials and commemorative art installations—to uncover the surprising connections between memorialization practices, war writing, and modernism. Spanning the century from the middle of World War I to its centenary celebrations, Posthumous Lives illuminates, in a deeply moving narrative, how the dead are remembered to meet the shifting needs of the living.