The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts

Ann-Marie Einhaus; Katherine Isobel Baxter

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts

Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474401647

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About this book

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the present

This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war’s upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the 26 essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and, where appropriate, pursue their inquiry into the present day. In 6 sections, covering Literature, the Visual Arts, Music, Periodicals and Journalism, Film and Broadcasting, and Publishing and Material Culture, a wide range of original chapters from experts across literature and the arts examine what means and approaches were employed to respond to the shock of war as well as asking such key questions as how and why literary and artistic responses to the war have changed over time, and how far later works of art are responses not only to the war itself, but to earlier cultural production.

Key Features

Offers new insights into the breadth and depth of artistic responses to WWI
Establishes links and parallels across a wide range of different media and genres
Emphasises the development of responses in different fields from 1914 to the present

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Literature
1 The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction Marie Stern-Peltz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 Poetry of the First World War in Britain Clara Dawson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 First World War Short Fiction Ann-Marie Einhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4 Theatre: 1914 and After Andrew Maunder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5 Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences Alice Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6 Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War Anna Maguire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
II. Visual Arts
7 The ‘abysmal inexcusable middle class’, Painting, Commemoration and the First World War Matthew C. Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8 ‘Varied to Infinity’: The First World War and Sculpture Laura Brandon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9 Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning Laura Wittman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
10 Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain James Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
III. Music
11 ‘We think you ought to go’: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War Robert Dean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
12 British Soldiers’ Songs George Simmers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
13 The First World War in Popular Music since 1958 Peter Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
14 Requiems and Memorial Music Kate Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
IV. Periodicals and Journalism
15 Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals Kate Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
16 Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance Christopher J. La Casse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
17 Pamphlets and Political Writing Matthew Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
18 ‘The whole of war is an atrocity’: Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands Jo Laycock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
V. Film and Broadcasting
19 Official War Films in Britain: THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916), its Impact Then and its Meaning Today Toby Haggith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
20 Too Colossal to Be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War Michael Paris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
21 Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama Emma Hanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
22 The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War Richard J. Hand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
VI. Publishing and Material Culture
23 The British Publishing Industry and the First World War Jane Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
24 Photography and the First World War J. J Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
25 The Imperial War Museum and the Material Culture of the First World War, 1917–2014 Alys Cundy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
26 The Evolution of First World War Computer Games Chris Kempshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	432
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 480
Illustrations
- Other: 36 B/W illustrations 16 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 12, 2017
ISBN: 9781474401647