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.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter
• I. Literature
• 1. The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction Marie Stern-Peltz
• 2. Poetry of the First World War in Britain Clara Dawson
• 3. First World War Short Fiction Ann-Marie Einhaus
• 4. Theatre: 1914 and After Andrew Maunder
• 5. Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences Alice Kelly
• 6. Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War Anna Maguire
• II. Visual Arts
• 7. The ‘abysmal inexcusable middle class’, Painting, Commemoration and the First World War Matthew C. Potter
• 8. ‘Varied to Infinity’: The First World War and Sculpture Laura Brandon
• 9. Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning Laura Wittman
• 10. Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain James Thompson
• III. Music
• 11. ‘We think you ought to go’: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War Robert Dean
• 12. British Soldiers’ Songs George Simmers
• 13. The First World War in Popular Music since 1958 Peter Grant
• 14. Requiems and Memorial Music Kate Kennedy
• IV. Periodicals and Journalism
• 15. Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals Kate Macdonald
• 16. Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance Christopher J. La Casse
• 17. Pamphlets and Political Writing Matthew Shaw
• 18. ‘The whole of war is an atrocity’: Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands Jo Laycock
• 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
• 20. Too Colossal to Be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War Michael Paris
• 21. Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama Emma Hanna
• 22. The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War Richard J. Hand
• VI. Publishing and Material Culture
• 23. The British Publishing Industry and the First World War Jane Potter
• 24. Photography and the First World War J. J. Long
• 25. The Imperial War Museum and the Material Culture of the First World War, 1917–2014 Alys Cundy
• 26. The Evolution of First World War Computer Games Chris Kempshall
• Contributors
• Images