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1st Edition

Landscapes and Voices of the Great War

Edited By Angela K. Smith, Krista Cowman Copyright 2017
260 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins of popular understanding of the war. The landscape of the western front was captured during the conflict in many different ways: in photographs, paintings and print. The most commonly replicated voicing of... Read more

Introduction

[Angela K. Smith and Krista Cowman]

Part I: Real and Imagined Spaces

1. "Funny Men and Charming Girls": Revue and the Theatrical Landscape of 1914-1918

[Andrew Maunder]

2. "When Words Are Not Enough": The Aural Landscape of Britain’s Modern Memory of 1914-18

[Emma Hanna]

3. Maisons de Tolérance: The Real and Imagined Sexual Landscapes of the Western Front

[Krista Cowman]

4. "The Delightful Sense of Personal Contact That Your Letter Aroused": Letters and Intimate Lives in the First World War

[Carol Acton]

Part II: Voices

5. "A Certain Poetess": Recuperating Jessie Pope (1868-1941)

[Jane Potter]

6. Ventriloquizing Voices in World War I: Scribe, Poetess, Philosopher

[Margaret R. Higonnet]

7. Pacifist Writer, Propagandist Publisher: Rose Macaulay and Hodder & Stoughton

[Lise Jaillant]

8. From Collusion to Condemnation: The Evolving Voice of "Woodbine Willie"

[Stuart Bell]

Part III: Landscapes

9. Camels, Catacombs and Pyramids: First World War Nursing Narratives in the Middle East

[Nadia Atia]

10. Cars in the Desert: Claud H. Williams, S.C. Rolls and the Anglo-Sanusi War

[Lisa Regan]

11. Murmurs of War: Grace Fallow Norton and "The　Red Road"

[Hazel Hutchison]

12. Landscapes of Memory in Centenary Fiction

[Angela K. Smith]

Biography

Angela K. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University.

Krista Cowman is Professor of History in the School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln.

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