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Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory

Posthumous Lives: World War I and the Culture of Memory

London, Bette

Hardcover

Literary CriticismBritish HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 1501762354
ISBN13: 9781501762352
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2022
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Posthumous Lives explores the shifting significance of public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed in World War I--as well as the less well-remembered casualties of the war, including Voluntary Aid Detachments, nurses, conscientious objectors, civilians, and soldiers executed for desertion or cowardice--and the compelling hold the First World War has had on the British imagination for more than a century. By using the concept of the posthumous life--the attempt to extend the presence of the dead into the lives of the living--Bette London demonstrates how this idea came to shape Britain's First World War memory practices and rituals.

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