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The Silent Morning. Culture and Memory After the Armistice.
. Ed(S): Tate, Trudi; Kennedy, Kate
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Description for The Silent Morning. Culture and Memory After the Armistice.
The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 Editor(s): Tate, Trudi; Kennedy, Kate. Series Editor(s): Taithe, Bertrand; Summerfield, Penny; Gatrell, Peter; Jones, Max; Carden-Coyne, Ana. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 566.
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the ... Read more
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Cultural History of Modern War
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090028
SKU
V9780719090028
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About . Ed(S): Tate, Trudi; Kennedy, Kate
Trudi Tate is a Fellow of Clare Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Kate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge -- .
Reviews for The Silent Morning. Culture and Memory After the Armistice.
One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any, which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in 'The Silent Morning'.
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