Full Description
Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book discusses aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture.
Contents
1) Introduction
Jessica Meyer
I. Trench Cultures
2) The Propinquity of Place: home, landscape and soldier poets of the Great War
Keith Grieves
3) A War Unimagined: Food, memory and the rank and file soldier
Rachel Duffett
4) 'Tailoring in the Trenches': Production and consumption of First World War British army uniform
Jane Tynan
II. Women and Culture
5) 'All That is Best of the Modern Woman?': Representations of paramilitary women war workers in British popular culture, 1914-1938
Krisztina Robert
6) 'Play at Being Soldiers'? British women, fashion and military uniform in the First World War
Lucy Noakes
7) 'Wartime Hysterics': Alcohol, women and the politics of wartime social purity
Stella Moss
8) Best Boys and Aching Hearts: the rhetoric of romance as social control in magazines for young women
Carol Acton
III. Memorial Cultures
9) The British Veterans Movement, 1917-1921
Douglas Higbee
10) The Old Front Line: Returning to the battlefields in the writings of ex-servicemen
John Pegum
11) 'A Sting of Remembrance!': Collective memory and its forgotten armies
Eugene Michail
12) The Last War: The legacy of the First World War in 1940s British Fiction
Victoria Stewart
IV. Cultures of Memory
13) 'Reaching out to the Past': Memory in Contemporary British First World War Narratives
Virginie Renard
14) Popular Mnemonics of the First World War: The Unknown Soldier and Distant Bridges
Claudia Sternberg
15) 'How much of an 'experience' do we want the public to receive?': Trench reconstruction and popular images of the Great War
Richard Espley
16) 'If It Had Happened Otherwise': First World War exceptionalism in counterfactual history
Stephen Badsey
