British & French Writers First War: Comparative Studies in Cultural History - Couverture souple

Field, Frank

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521069106 ISBN 13 : 9780521069106

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The impact of the Great War on some of France and Britain's most prominent writers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The First World War dealt a profound shock to European society. In this original and stimulating book, the historian Frank Field looks at the experiences of France and Britain during the war years as revealed in the work of some of their most prominent writers responding to the unfolding catastrophe. Brooke, Wells, Shaw, Kipling, Lawrence, Owen and Rosenberg are set alongside Jaurès, Barrès, Maurras, Péguy, Psichari and Rolland, as case studies of the war's impact on intellectual life in their respective countries. The comparative perspective reveals deep differences between the French and the British experience, and yet a shared ordeal marked by the terrible ironies attendant on the shattering of common ideals. Literary images of war as a purification rite were effaced by the bloody realities of the conflict and the prophecies of writers who came to feel increasingly distanced from the essential innocence of the world before 1914 took on a new tone, grimly apocalyptic or bitterly disillusioned.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521069106
• ISBN 13: 9780521069106
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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