Ebook: The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts

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;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.