The First World War continues to be seen as a cultural as well as a political rift in the early twentieth century. This collection explores literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and - where appropriate - pursue...
The First World War continues to be seen as a cultural as well as a political rift in the early twentieth century. This collection explores literary a...