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Publishers, Readers and the Great War: Literature and Memory since 1918 de Vincent Trott

Publishers, Readers and the Great War: Literature and Memory since 1918

Autor Vincent Trott
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2019
Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain.Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474291484
ISBN-10: 1474291481
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides the only detailed analysis of how British readers responded to First World War literature over the course of the last hundred years

Notă biografică

Vincent Trott is Lecturer in Modern History at the Open University, UK. He completed a collaborative doctorate in History with the Open University and the British Library in 2014.

Cuprins

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Publishing the First World War, 1919-19302. 'The Bloodless War': Reception and Controversy during the Interwar Years3. Marketing Myth: Richard Aldington, Vera Brittain and the Memory of the First World War4. The War to End all Wars? Literature and Memory, 1939-19495. Republishing the First World War: The Impact of the 1960s6. Remembering War, Resisting Myth: Literature, Memory and the Last VeteransConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Trott's reflections on the problematic nature of collaboratively written memoirs are interesting and pertinent ... The volume offers an eminently readable, wide-ranging account of the publication and reception history of key First World War texts and authors ... In light of the book's broad temporal scope, its usefulness for timestrapped students and researchers is heightened by the fact that each chapter also works as a stand-alone essay.
Trott offers a much needed perspective on the evolution of the First World War in British cultural memory ... Rather than simply catalogue what publishers produced and what readers chose to read, Trott compellingly puts a human face to both sides ... Publishers, Readers and the Great War conveys an important aspect of the literary legacy of British cultural memory of the First World War.
This is an excellent book. Well written, insightful, and drawing on a wonderful range of hitherto unused material, it elucidates the interaction between writers, publishers and readers that shaped representations of the First World War. Vincent Trott's book is a significant contribution to the field, and should be a 'must-read' for those interested in the remembrance of the war and its place in British popular culture.
Vincent Trott's book is a major contribution to the enduring debate about how British war literature over the past century has shaped our collective memory of the Great War. His powerful account of the filtering of First World War memories through the Second World War and later experiences goes beyond earlier treatments in new and compelling ways.