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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Reading and the Formation of the Literary Canon
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Writers’ Reading and Responses Ford Madox Ford and Edith Wharton
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Reading and the Masses: America and Italy
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Reading and National Identity: Australian Soldiers’ Reading at the Front
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Reading and Group Identity: War Artists and Conscientious Objectors
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Reading the News: Newspapers in Belgium, France and Germany
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About this book
Reviews
“This collection of 13 essays focuses on readership, representing the democratizing shift in literary research that is now a standard approach to the teaching of literary culture. … This book should be used by researchers working on the study of this war, as well as those working on book and publishing history, since the essays discuss little-known archival possibilities that established researchers may not know, and newcomers should certainly be made aware of.” (Kate Macdonald, First World War Studies, July, 2017)
“As Reading and the First World War demonstrates, a vast number of those involved in World War I–not only soldiers but also civilians–read avidly. … comprises a range of essays addressing topics as varied as the reading practices of war artists behind the line; of conscientious objectors; and of Australian prisoners of war. … the nurses and ambulance drivers who must have read, if only occasionally–ultimately Reading and the First World War contains somethingfor everyone.” (Kabi Hartman, English Literature in Transition, Vol. 60 (1), 2017)
“The history of reading in the First World War is an area of particular significance in this commemorative period. It has benefited from a conjunction of archival and digital projects that makes new accounts and resources available to scholars across the world. … This complex intermingling of experience and imagination animates the collection as a whole, making this not just a gathering of scholarly perspectives, but a testament to the interdependence of all acts of wartime reading, politically and culturally.” (Lucy Collins, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, August, 2016)
“Reading and the First World War participates in the recent digital turn and transnational turn in book history, which are also central to modernist studies. … Reading and the First World War includes some particularly strong essays based on work in neglected archives and collections. It will be of interest not only to book historians (its explicit audience), but also to scholars of modernism.” (Lise Jaillant, Modernism, modernity, Vol. 23 (2), April, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading and the First World War
Book Subtitle: Readers, Texts, Archives
Editors: Shafquat Towheed, Edmund G. C. King
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137302717
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30270-0Published: 17 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30271-7Published: 17 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Topics: History of Military, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Poetics