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  3. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2006
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9780511999413
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521821452
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, English Literature 1900-1945, Twentieth Century Regional History
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.

Reviews

'With its up-to-date scholarship, this book would be a very useful acquisition for serious research into the literature of the period, for undergraduate level-students and beyond.'

Source: Reference Reviews

'This outstanding volume is a welcome corrective to tired truisms surrounding Great War history, culture, and literature. Vincent Sherry's introduction argues for a literary history more attuned to the Zeitgeist of the war's early days … Sherry and his collaborators graciously acknowledge the primacy of these tropes in our cultural memory but also demonstrate new ways of reading and teaching literary representations of the Great War.'

Source: Yearbook of English Studies

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  • 4 - British women’s writing of the Great War
    pp 85-112
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