British popular culture and the First World War /
British popular culture and the First World War /
edited by Jessica Meyer.
- 1 online resource.
- Brill eBook titles 2008 .
- History of Warfare 48. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2008, ISBN: 9789004222847. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Materials / Introduction: Popular Culture And The First World War / The Propinquity Of Place: Home, Landscape And Soldier Poets Of The First World War / A War Unimagined: Food And The Rank And File Soldier Of The First World War / ‘Tailoring In The Trenches’: The Making Of First World War British Army Uniform / “All That Is Best Of The Modern Woman”? Representations Of Female Military Auxiliaries In British Popular Culture, 1914–1919 / ‘Playing At Being Soldiers’?: British Women And Military Uniform In The First World War / “Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women And The Politics Of Wartime Social Purity In England / Best Boys And Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric Of Romance As Social Control In Wartime Magazines For Young Women / Practical Memory: Organized Veterans And The Politics Of Commemoration / The Old Front Line: Returning To The Battlefields In The Writings Of Ex-Servicemen / ‘A Sting Of Remembrance!’: Collective Memory And Its Forgotten Armies / The Last War: The Legacy Of The First World War In 1940s British Fiction / Reaching Out To The Past: Memory In Contemporary British First World War Narratives / Framed (By) Memory: The Popular Mnemonics Of The First World War In The Unknown Soldier (Carlton Tv, Uk 1998) And Distant Bridges (Uk/Usa 1999) / “How Much Of An ‘Experience’ Do We Want The Public To Receive?”: Trench Reconstructions And Popular Images Of The Great War / ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism In Counterfactual History / Illustrations / Index / J. Meyer -- Jessica Meyer -- Keith Grieves -- Rachel Duffett -- Jane Tynan -- Krisztina Robert -- Lucy Noakes -- Stella Moss -- Carol Acton -- Douglas Higbee -- John Pegum -- Eugene Michail -- Victoria Stewart -- Virginie Renard -- Claudia Sternberg -- Richard Espley -- Stephen Badsey -- J. Meyer -- J. Meyer.
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Much of the scholarship examining British culture of the First World War focusses on the 'high' culture of a limited number of novels, memoirs, plays and works of art, and the cultural reaction to them. This collection, by focussing on the cultural forms produced by and for a much wider range of social groups, including veterans, women, museum visitors and film goers, greatly expands the debate over how the war was represented by participants and the meanings ascribed to it in cultural production. Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book covers aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture. Contributors are: Keith Grieves, Rachel Duffett, Jane Tynan, Krisztina Robert, Lucy Noakes, Stella Moss, Carol Acton, Douglas Higbee, John Pegum, Eugene Michail, Victoria Stewart, Virginie Renard, Claudia Sternberg, Richard Espley and Stephen Badsey. Erratum Introduction, Jessica Meyer, page 11 in the first sentence of the second paragraph, for 'talke' read 'talk.'
9789047433385
10.1163/ej.9789004166585.i-383 DOI
2008006760
GBA849261 bnb
014568122 Uk B0808297 bccb
Collective memory--Great Britain.
Popular culture--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain.
D524.7.G7 / B75 2008
940.3/41
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Materials / Introduction: Popular Culture And The First World War / The Propinquity Of Place: Home, Landscape And Soldier Poets Of The First World War / A War Unimagined: Food And The Rank And File Soldier Of The First World War / ‘Tailoring In The Trenches’: The Making Of First World War British Army Uniform / “All That Is Best Of The Modern Woman”? Representations Of Female Military Auxiliaries In British Popular Culture, 1914–1919 / ‘Playing At Being Soldiers’?: British Women And Military Uniform In The First World War / “Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women And The Politics Of Wartime Social Purity In England / Best Boys And Aching Hearts: The Rhetoric Of Romance As Social Control In Wartime Magazines For Young Women / Practical Memory: Organized Veterans And The Politics Of Commemoration / The Old Front Line: Returning To The Battlefields In The Writings Of Ex-Servicemen / ‘A Sting Of Remembrance!’: Collective Memory And Its Forgotten Armies / The Last War: The Legacy Of The First World War In 1940s British Fiction / Reaching Out To The Past: Memory In Contemporary British First World War Narratives / Framed (By) Memory: The Popular Mnemonics Of The First World War In The Unknown Soldier (Carlton Tv, Uk 1998) And Distant Bridges (Uk/Usa 1999) / “How Much Of An ‘Experience’ Do We Want The Public To Receive?”: Trench Reconstructions And Popular Images Of The Great War / ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism In Counterfactual History / Illustrations / Index / J. Meyer -- Jessica Meyer -- Keith Grieves -- Rachel Duffett -- Jane Tynan -- Krisztina Robert -- Lucy Noakes -- Stella Moss -- Carol Acton -- Douglas Higbee -- John Pegum -- Eugene Michail -- Victoria Stewart -- Virginie Renard -- Claudia Sternberg -- Richard Espley -- Stephen Badsey -- J. Meyer -- J. Meyer.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Much of the scholarship examining British culture of the First World War focusses on the 'high' culture of a limited number of novels, memoirs, plays and works of art, and the cultural reaction to them. This collection, by focussing on the cultural forms produced by and for a much wider range of social groups, including veterans, women, museum visitors and film goers, greatly expands the debate over how the war was represented by participants and the meanings ascribed to it in cultural production. Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book covers aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture. Contributors are: Keith Grieves, Rachel Duffett, Jane Tynan, Krisztina Robert, Lucy Noakes, Stella Moss, Carol Acton, Douglas Higbee, John Pegum, Eugene Michail, Victoria Stewart, Virginie Renard, Claudia Sternberg, Richard Espley and Stephen Badsey. Erratum Introduction, Jessica Meyer, page 11 in the first sentence of the second paragraph, for 'talke' read 'talk.'
9789047433385
10.1163/ej.9789004166585.i-383 DOI
2008006760
GBA849261 bnb
014568122 Uk B0808297 bccb
Collective memory--Great Britain.
Popular culture--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Great Britain.
D524.7.G7 / B75 2008
940.3/41