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The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines While literary scholars and historians often draw on the press as a source of information, First World War periodicals have rarely been studied as cultural artefacts in their own right. However, as this volume shows, the press not only played a vital role in the conflict, but also underwent significant changes due to the war. This Companion brings together leading and emerging scholars from various fields to reassess the role and function of the periodical press during the so-called 'Greater War'. It pays specific attention to the global aspects of the war, as well as to different types of periodicals that existed during the conflict, ranging from trench, hospital and camp journals to popular newspapers, children's magazines and avant-garde journals in various national and cultural contexts. Marysa Demoor is Professor Emerita at Ghent University. She is the author of A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (2022) and of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, 1870-1920 (2000). With Ingo Berensmeyer and Gert Buelens she co-edited the Cambridge Handbook to Literary Authorship (2019) and with Laurel Brake she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century (2009) and the Dictionary of 19C Journalism (2009). Cedric Van Dijck is a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at Ghent University. He is the author of the forthcoming Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press). Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the author of Modernist Literature and European Identity (2020).
About the author
Marysa Demoor is Professor Emerita at Ghent University. Demoor is the author of
A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Palgrave, 2022). With Ingo Berensmeyer and Gert Buelens she has co-edited the
Cambridge Handbook to Literary Authorship (Cambridge, 2019). With Laurel Brake, she edited
The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2009) and the
Dictionary of 19C Journalism (British Library & Academia Press, 2009). She is the editor of
Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (Palgrave, 2004) and the author of
Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, 1870-1920 (Ashgate, 2000). Cedric Van Dijck is a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is a co-editor of the
Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (2023) and
The Intellectual Response to the First World War (2017). His research on modernism and war has appeared in
PMLA,
TSLL,
Modernism/modernity,
Times Literary Supplement and
Modernist Cultures. Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the author of
Modernist Literature and European Identity (Routledge, 2020).
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The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines
