Description: The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines.
Brief description: Marysa Demoor is Professor Emerita at Ghent University. Demoor is the author of A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Palgrave, 2022). With Ingo Berensmeyer and Gert Buelens she has co-edited the Cambridge Handbook to Literary Authorship (Cambridge, 2019). With Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2009) and the Dictionary of 19C Journalism (British Library & Academia Press, 2009). She is the editor of Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (Palgrave, 2004) and the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, 1870-1920 (Ashgate, 2000).
Review Quotes: It is hard to do justice to a volume like this one in the confines of a book review. The thirty-one chapters of The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals, including the excellent introduction, make for varied and invariably fascinating reading. The ample illustrations that accompany so many of the chapters serve to reinforce the value of this volume by showcasing the affective potential and multimediality of wartime periodicals. Based on a huge array of original research, this book is a Companion volume in the best sense of offering a lasting guide to a medium that deserves continuing scholarly attention.--Ann-Marie Einhaus "Northumbria University"