World War I: A Historical Exploration of Literature
byEugene Edward Beiriger is associate professor of history and distinguished honors professor at DePaul University.
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Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents.
• Provides an overview of the First World War on the Western and Southern Fronts, allowing for a general understanding of the war and its effects on governments, armies, soldiers, and civilians• Explores historical topics ranging from the challenges of waging and sustaining the war to the nature and strains of trench and attritional warfare to the "lived experiences" of soldiers, volunteers, and civilian populations and the ways in which the war was memorialized
• Discusses the significance of novels and poetry as a means to understand the war's challenges and complexities
• Examines one of the earliest and most important war novels (Henri Barbusse's Under Fire), a work that influenced more well-known classics by Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway, and the war poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, also examined in this volume
• Includes primary sources from some of the war's most significant writers, such as Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, Ernst Jünger, and Bertrand Russell as well as government documents, war propaganda, and material from some of the physicians who treated shell shock
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World War I: A Historical Exploration of Literature
Author(s): Beiriger, Eugene;Contributors: Beiriger, Eugene;Abstract:Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents.
• Provides an overview of the First World War on the Western and Southern Fronts, allowing for a general understanding of the war and its effects on governments, armies, soldiers, and civilians• Explores historical topics ranging from the challenges of waging and sustaining the war to the nature and strains of trench and attritional warfare to the "lived experiences" of soldiers, volunteers, and civilian populations and the ways in which the war was memorialized
• Discusses the significance of novels and poetry as a means to understand the war's challenges and complexities
• Examines one of the earliest and most important war novels (Henri Barbusse's Under Fire), a work that influenced more well-known classics by Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway, and the war poetry of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, also examined in this volume
• Includes primary sources from some of the war's most significant writers, such as Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, Ernst Jünger, and Bertrand Russell as well as government documents, war propaganda, and material from some of the physicians who treated shell shock
SortTitle: world war i: a historical exploration of literatureAuthor Info:Eugene Edward BeirigerauthorEugene Edward Beiriger is associate professor of history and distinguished honors professor at DePaul University.
eISBN-13: 9781440854354Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440854354.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440854347Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 272Publication Date: 20181130Series: Historical Explorations of Literature- Cover Cover11
- Half Title i2
- Title iii4
- Copyright iv5
- Dedication v6
- Contents vii8
- Series Foreword xiii14
- Acknowledgments xv16
- Introduction and Background xvii18
- Chronology xxv26
- 1 Under Fire (Henri Barbusse, 1916) 136
- Synopsis of Under Fire 136
- Historical Background of Under Fire: The First Years of the Western Front in the First World War 641
- About Henri Barbusse 1146
- Why We Read Under Fire 1449
- Historical Explorations of Under Fire 1853
- Documenting Under Fire 2560
- Trench Warfare: The War of Attrition 2560
- Document: General Erich von Falkenhayn, “Christmas Letter” to Kaiser Wilhelm II (1915) 2762
- Document: Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Letter to Newspapers (May 1916) 3065
- Document: Paul Painlevé, Speech on Failure of the French Army (July 7, 1917) 3166
- Document: Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Order to Troops (April 11, 1918) 3267
- Officers and Soldiers 3368
- The Enemy 4277
- Suggested Readings 5287
- 2 All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque, 1929) 5590
- Synopsis of All Quiet on the Western Front 5590
- Historical Background of All Quiet on the Western Front: The Last Years of the Western Front in the First World War 6196
- About Erich Maria Remarque 6499
- Why We Read All Quiet on the Western Front 68103
- Historical Explorations of All Quiet on the Western Front 71106
- Documenting All Quiet on the Western Front 77112
- Comradery 88123
- Survival: Masculinity and Manliness 96131
- Suggested Readings 106141
- 3 Poetry of the First World War: Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”; John McCrae, “In Flanders Field”; Siegfried Sassoon, “The Redeemer”; Wilfred Owen, “Dolce et Decorum Est 109144
- Synopses of the Poems 109144
- Historical Background of the Poems: “Oh, What a Literary War”: Writers and the Western Front in the First World War 114149
- About the Poets 118153
- Why We Read These Poems 121156
- Historical Explorations of the Poems 124159
- Documenting the Poems 130165
- Recruitment and Propaganda 130165
- Document: Rupert Brooke, “Peace” (1915) 132167
- Document: UK Government, Bryce Committee Report on “Alleged German Outrages” (1915) 133168
- Document: UK Government, “Women of Britain” Recruitment Poster (1915) 138173
- Document: German Government, “The Better Part of Valor” Leaflet (1918) 138173
- Objection to War and Disillusionment 139174
- Document: German Government, “Secret Decree of the Prussian Ministry of War of November 7, 1915, on Intensified Measures to Suppress the Bourgeois-Pacifist Anti-War Movement” (November 7, 1915) 142177
- Document: Bertrand Russell, Justice in War-Time (1916) 144179
- Document: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Graeme West (1916) 146181
- Document: Lord Lansdowne, “Letter to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph” (November 23, 1917) 148183
- Moral Obligation of the Writer 153188
- Document: Rudyard Kipling, “As They Tested Our Fathers” (September 8, 1914) 156191
- Document: George Bernard Shaw, “Common Sense about the War” (November 14, 1914) 157192
- Document: Siegfried Sassoon, “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration” (1917) 159194
- Documents: Siegfried Sassoon, “Introduction” and Wilfred Owen, “Preface” in Poems of Wilfred Owen (1920) 160195
- Wilfred Owen, “Preface” (1920) 161196
- Suggested Readings 163198
- 4 A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway, 1929) 165200
- Synopsis of A Farewell to Arms 165200
- Historical Background of A Farewell to Arms: The Italo-Austrian Front in the First World War 170205
- About Ernest Hemingway 173208
- Why We Read A Farewell to Arms 177212
- Historical Explorations of A Farewell to Arms 181216
- Documenting A Farewell to Arms 186221
- Nurses 193228
- Document: Enid Bagnold, Diary without Dates (1918) 193228
- Document: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933) 194229
- Women at War 197232
- Document: Selections from the Diary of Isabelle Rimbaud (1914) 201236
- Document: Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz, When the Prussians Came to Poland (1916) 204239
- Document: Rebecca West, “Women of England” (1916) 208243
- Document: Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933) 211246
- Shell Shock 213248
- Document: Thomas Salmon, M.D., Care and Treatment of Mental Disorders and War Neuroses (“Shell Shock”) in the British Army (1917) 216251
- Document: Siegfried Sassoon, “Repression of War Experience” (1918) 219254
- Document: W.H.R. Rivers, M.D., “Repression of War Experience” (1918) 220255
- Document: Lewis Yealland, M.D., Hysterical Disorders of Warfare (1918) 225260
- Suggested Readings 230265
- Index 233268