Reading and the First World War [electronic resource] : Readers, Texts, Archives /
Towheed, Shafquat.editor.
King, Edmund G. C.editor.
Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Reading and the Formation of the Literary Canon""; ""1 ?Khaki and Kisses?: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War""; ""2 Towards a Popular Canon: Education, Young Readers and Authorial Identity in Great Britain between the Wars""; ""Part II: Writers? Reading and Responses: Ford Madox Ford and Edith Wharton""; ""3 Impressions of War: Ford Madox Ford, Reading and Parade?s End""
""4 Reading the Great War: An Examination of Edith Wharton?s Reading and Responses, 1914?1918""""Part III: Reading and the Masses: America and Italy""; ""5 ?Please send me Tess of the Dr. Rbyvilles (Harding)?: The Reading Preferences of American Soldiers during the First World War""; ""6 ?Today they read even those who did not read?: Reading in Italy during the First World War""; ""Part IV: Reading and National Identity: Australian Soldiers? Reading at the Front""; ""7 William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War""
""8 A Captive Audience? The Reading Lives of Australian Prisoners of War, 1914?1918""""Part V: Reading and Group Identity: War Artists and Conscientious Objectors""; ""9 Reading Behind the Lines: War Artists, War Poets, Reading and Letter Writing, 1917?1919""; ""10 Only a ?Scrap of Paper?: The Prison Reading of British Conscientious Objectors, 1916?1919""; ""Part VI: Reading the News: Newspapers in Belgium, France and Germany""; ""11 German Soldier Newspapers and Their Allied Counterparts""; ""12 Forbidden Reading in Occupied Countries: Belgium and France, 1914?1918""; ""Bibliography""
""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.
Military history.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
British literature.
Fiction.
Poetry.
History of Military.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Poetry and Poetics.