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British and French Writers of the First World War - Comparative Studies in Cultural History (Paperback)
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British and French Writers of the First World War - Comparative Studies in Cultural History (Paperback)
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The First World War dealt a profound shock to European society. In
this original and stimulating book, the historian Frank Field looks
at the experiences of France and Britain during the war years as
revealed in the work of some of their most prominent writers
responding to the unfolding catastrophe. Brooke, Wells, Shaw,
Kipling, Lawrence, Owen and Rosenberg are set alongside Jaures,
Barres, Maurras, Peguy, Psichari and Rolland, as case studies of
the war's impact on intellectual life in their respective
countries. The comparative perspective reveals deep differences
between the French and the British experience, and yet a shared
ordeal marked by the terrible ironies attendant on the shattering
of common ideals. Literary images of war as a purification rite
were effaced by the bloody realities of the conflict and the
prophecies of writers who came to feel increasingly distanced from
the essential innocence of the world before 1914 took on a new
tone, grimly apocalyptic or bitterly disillusioned.
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