Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War /

Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War / / ed. by Ralf Schneider, Jane Potter.

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-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Acton, Carol,
Bonnerjee, Samraghni,
Briggs, Marlene A.,
Dornhofer, Daniel,
Einhaus, Ann-Marie,
Emig, Rainer,
Frayn, Andrew,
Gagel, Amanda,
Giovanelli, Marcello,
Koch, Jessica,
Lancaster, Philip,
Löschnigg, Martin,
Macdonald, Kate,
Potter, Jane,
Rayner, Samantha,
Ricketts, Harry,
Schaff, Barbara,
Schneider, Ralf,
Simmers, George,
Smith, Angela K.,
Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena,
Spittel, Christina,
Sternberg, Claudia,
Tschörtner, Anja,
HerausgeberIn:
Potter, Jane ,
Schneider, Ralf,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 528 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors’ Preface
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 0 Introduction
  • Part I: Systematic Questions: Genres and Perspectives
  • 1 The First World War in Poetry
  • 2 Autobiographical Writing and the First World War
  • 3 The Novel of the First World War
  • 4 The Short Story of the First World War
  • 5 The First World War in British Narrative Film and Television: From Visual Archive to Filmic Imagination
  • 6 Gendering the First World War: Masculinity and Femininity in First World War Literary and Cultural Production
  • 7 Indian Writings of the First World War
  • Part II: Close Readings
  • 8 Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929)
  • 9 Enid Bagnold, A Diary Without Dates (1918) and The Happy Foreigner (1920)
  • 10 Arnold Bennett, The Pretty Lady (1918)
  • 11 Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (1928) and War Poetry
  • 12 Mary Borden, The Forbidden Zone (1929) and Sarah Gay (1931)
  • 13 Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
  • 14 Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928)
  • 15 Robert Graves, War Poetry and Goodbye To all That (1929)
  • 16 Ivor Gurney, War Poetry
  • 17 Thomas Hardy, War Poetry
  • 18 Storm Jameson, That Was Yesterday (1932) and Mirror in Darkness (1934–1936)
  • 19 David Jones, In Parenthesis (1937)
  • 20 Rudyard Kipling, Poetry and Short Stories of the First World War
  • 21 Vernon Lee, Satan the Waster (1920) and Peace with Honour (1915)
  • 22 Rose Macaulay, Non-Combatants and Others (1916) and Other War Writings
  • 23 Wilfred Owen, War Poetry
  • 24 Ernest Raymond, Tell England (1922) and Other Writings
  • 25 Isaac Rosenberg, War Poetry
  • 26 Siegfried Sassoon, War Poems (1919) and The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (1937)
  • 27 R.C. Sherriff, Journey’s End (1928)
  • 28 May Sinclair, A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (1915), War Poetry and Fiction
  • 29 Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Years (1937) and Three Guineas (1938)
  • 30 Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop, Oh What a Lovely War (1963)
  • 31 Susan Hill, Strange Meeting (1971)
  • 32 Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (1993)
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Names
  • List of Contributors

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