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While literary scholars and historians often draw on the press as a
source of information, First World War periodicals have rarely been
studied as cultural artefacts in their own right. However, as this
volume shows, the press not only played a vital role in the
conflict, but also underwent significant changes due to the war.
This Companion brings together leading and emerging scholars from
various fields to reassess the role and function of the periodical
press during the so-called 'Greater War'. It pays specific
attention to the global aspects of the war, as well as to different
types of periodicals that existed during the conflict, ranging from
trench, hospital and camp journals to popular newspapers,
children's magazines and avant-garde journals in various national
and cultural contexts.
Shifts the scholarly conversation on modernism and war from shell
shock to material culture Provides the first book-length study of
the material culture of the First World War through the lens of
modernist literature Rethinks the relationship between modernism
and armed conflict in tangible terms by exploring how the things of
war helped shape modernism Offers an alternative to familiar
accounts of modernism and shell shock Explores canonical and
lesser-known authors from Britain, Europe and the colonial world to
cover a wide range of war experiences Turns to unexpected and newly
discovered print artefacts from the modernist archives, including
trench newspapers, shop signs, travel guides and other sources at
the margins of the canon What did modernist writers make of the
things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the
shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more
tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art
and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets
dropped from airplanes. Modernism, Material Culture and the First
World War asks what experimental writers read into these objects
and how the conflict prompted a way of thinking of their writings
as objects in their own right. Ranging from 1914 to the early
1940s, the chapters in this book weave together prose and poems by
Guillaume Apollinaire, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees
and Mulk Raj Anand.
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