Ebook: The Edinburgh companion to the First World War and the arts
Author: Baxter Katherine Isobel, Einhaus Ann-Marie
- Tags: Arts and society, Arts and society--Great Britain--History--20th century, Arts British, Arts British--20th century, World War 1914-1918, Electronic books, History, Art, World War 1914-1918 -- Art and the war, Arts British -- 20th century, Arts and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Great Britain
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Ltd
- City: Great Britain
- Edition: Enhanced Credo edition
- Language: English
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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.
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