Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts
Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts
Editors: Einhaus, Ann-Marie and Baxter, Katherine Isobel
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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ISBN: 978-1-47-440163-0
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
39
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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