Description:
The First World War both extends and departs from established understandings of wartime literature and culture. The compelling essays reconsider the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across a range of writers and artists, embedding the conflict in a broader, global understanding of 20th-century literature and culture.
Review Quotes: All eleven essays and the introduction are well written and deploy a variety of approaches to the vast topic proposed in the volume's title; each essay, moreover, demonstrates a thorough knowledge of its particular subfield. The volume itself is handsome and, unlike many essay collections, includes an index. The authors and editors deserve praise for selecting essays that expand on the cannon of war literature beyond the well-known combatant-poets and for moving beyond the literary to include film and the plastic arts...There is a great deal of merit in this very fine contribution to the field of First World War literary studies.-- "Susan McCready, University of South Alabama, H-War"