| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Publishing the First World War, 1919-1930; The interwar publishing industry; Marketing the middlebrow war novel; Anticipating the 'war books boom'; The 'war books boom'; The divided marketplace; Conclusion; 2 'The Bloodless War': Reception and Controversy during the Interwar Years; Post-war pessimism?; Early critical responses during the 'war books boom'; Wilfred Owen and the canon; Authors, critics and controversy; 'General approval?'; 'The young and the war'; Cinema and the 'war books boom'; Conclusion |
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3 Marketing Myth: Richard Aldington, Vera Brittain and the Memory of the First World WarMyth and memory in Death of a Hero; 'The market is getting flooded with them': Publishing Death of a Hero; The reception of Death of a Hero; Myth and memory in Testament of Youth; Taking the tide: Victor Gollancz and Testament of Youth; The reception of Testament of Youth; Conclusion; 4 The War to End All Wars? Literature and Memory, 1939-1949; 'Books on the last war'; The First World War in 1940s literature; Reception; Conclusion; 5 Republishing the First World War: The Impact of the 1960s; Robert Graves |
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Wilfred Owen Vera Brittain; Conclusion; 6 Remembering War, Resisting Myth: Literature, Memory and the Last Veterans; Harry Patch and Henry Allingham; Memory, myth and autobiographical collaboration; Enlistment; Combat; Generals; Post-war memories; Modern memories; Reception; Conclusion; Conclusion; The future of First World War memory; Notes; Introduction; 1 Publishing the First World War, 1919- 1930; 2 'The Bloodless War': Reception and Controversy during the Interwar Years; 3 Marketing Myth: Richard Aldington, Vera Brittain and the Memory of the First World War |
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4 The War to End All Wars? Literature and Memory, 1939- 19495 Republishing the First World War: The Impact of the 1960s; 6 Remembering War, Resisting Myth: Literature, Memory and the Last Veterans; Bibliography; Primary sources; Archives and collections; Books; Films; Television; Websites and email correspondence; Secondary sources; Books; Chapters in books; Journal articles; Unpublished theses; Websites; Index |
| Summary |
"Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 24, 2017) |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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First World War.
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Literature & literary studies.
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British & Irish history.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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War and literature
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474291477 |
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1474291473 |
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9781474291507 |
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1474291503 |
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9781474291514 |
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1474291511 |
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9781474291484 |
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1474291481 |
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