Merchants of Hope - British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919 1939

This study examines fictional recreations of the First World War in the interwar years and the phenomenal success of one play, Sheriff''s Journey''s End. The author challenges the notion of a ''modern'' memory generated by the First World War by arguing that middlebrow texts formulated a set of images and ideas that eclipsed the wartime upheaval and imputed conservative ''meanings'' to the collective memory.>

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• Authors: Maria Bracco, Rosa Bracco, Rosa M. Bracco, Rosa Maria Bracco
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.1993
• EAN: 9780854967063
• ISBN: 978-0-85496-706-3
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Legacy of the Great War; The Legacy of the Great War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)