World War I and the cultures of modernity
By: edited by Douglas Mackaman and Michael Mays.
Contributors: Mackaman, Douglas Peter.; Mays, Michael.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Jackson, MS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
Other titles: World War one; World War 1
Description: "The essays collected here chart the war and its cultural and literary contours from a variety of new and challenging intellectual vantage points.".

"Focusing in different essays on America, France, Britain, and Germany, the contributors to this book contest the long-accepted argument about World War I as the crucible of modern life. Instead, their interrogations of the trench experience, home-front conditions, forms of mass culture, and literary genres reveal that the war was as much a moment of cultural opportunity as it was the point of origin for modern society or its cultural forms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-192) and index.