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Author: Frank Field
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-01-25
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521392778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe impact of the Great War on some of France and Britain's most prominent writers.
Author: Hazel Hutchison
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0300195028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this provocative study, Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war's opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact the war would have on their society and sought out new strategies to express their horror, support, or resignation. By focusing on the writings of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Grace Fallow Norton, Mary Borden, Ellen La Motte, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos, Hutchison examines what it means to be a writer in wartime, particularly in the midst of a conflict characterized by censorship and propaganda. Drawing on original letters and manuscripts, some never before seen by researchers, this book explores howthe essays, poetry, and novels of these seven literary figures influenced America's public view of events, from August 1914 through the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and ultimately set the literary agenda for later, more celebrated texts about the war"--
Author: Stuart Sillars
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1847600271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich and valuable ebook has numerous fascinating hyperlinks to online resources. It discusses significant individual poems by the writers named, exploring them within their social, political and aesthetic frames and summarising important earlier critical readings and responses. It is copiously illustrated and covers Thomas Hardy, Popular Poetry, Anthologies, War Poetry by Women, the work of Graves, Blunden and Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, David Jones, Irish poetry, Scottish poetry, War Poetry and Modernism.
Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-02-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780141180090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Author: Christine Hallett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1784996327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.
Author: P. M. H. Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1317892720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which has been crucial to European politics and to both World Wars.This volume (fully self-contained) runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century to the Fall of France. Philip Bell discusses diplomatic, economic and military policy, combining absorbing narrative with revealing commentary about the two countries.
Author: Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-11-13
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 110701235X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new account of the role and performance of the French army in the First World War.
Author: John Horne
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 1119968704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history. Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war's legacy Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts Selected as a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-12-21
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781522863946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.
Author: Vincent Sherry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-20
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 1139826980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national literatures, principally Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, before addressing the way the war affected Modernism, the European avant-garde, film, women's writing, memoirs, and of course the war poets. It concludes by addressing the legacy of the war for twentieth-century literature. The Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the years leading up to and including the war, and ends with a current bibliography of further reading organised by chapter topics.
