The First World War by Das, Santanu; Das, Santanu; McLoughlin, Kate;

Literature, Culture, Modernity

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 213;

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Publisher The British Academy
Date of Publication 5 April 2018

ISBN 9780197266267
Binding Hardback
No. of pages280 pages
Size 241x164x9 mm
Weight 634 g
Language English
Illustrations 24 black and white images

Short description:

The First World War both extends and departs from established understandings of wartime literature and culture. The compelling essays reconsider the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across a range of writers and artists, embedding the conflict in a broader, global understanding of 20th-century literature and culture.

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Long description:

The First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In a series of compelling readings, scholars who have shaped the field rethink the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across an international range of writers.

Their attention ranges from combatant poets Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, and Robert Service to intrepid nurse-memoirists Enid Bagnold and Mary Borden, to civilian intellectuals as diverse as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Anna Akhmatova, and Rabindranath Tagore. At the same time, there is engagement with the visual arts, including the film The Battle of the Somme, the sculpture, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz and the interwar imaginative engagement with zeppelins. What results is both a daring expansion of the canon and a reframing of the terms of the debate.

Silence, sacrifice, the unfathomable, maximal intensity, proximity and distance, the divide between the living and the dead, the transfiguration of the skies, resistance, empire and cosmopolitanism are some of the themes that emerge in essays that simultaneously illuminate and take us beyond the parenthesis of the war years. The terms 'war writing', 'modernism', and 'modernity' are themselves revisited as the cast of internationally renowned contributors embed the conflict in a broader and more global understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture.

All eleven essays and the introduction are well written and deploy a variety of approaches to the vast topic proposed in the volume's title; each essay, moreover, demonstrates a thorough knowledge of its particular subfield. The volume itself is handsome and, unlike many essay collections, includes an index. The authors and editors deserve praise for selecting essays that expand on the cannon of war literature beyond the well-known combatant-poets and for moving beyond the literary to include film and the plastic arts...There is a great deal of merit in this very fine contribution to the field of First World War literary studies.