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Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War

Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1399507877
ISBN13: 9781399507875
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 1 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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