Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919 1939 (The Legacy of the Great War)

Bracco, Rosa Maria

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ISBN 10: 0854967060 ISBN 13: 9780854967063

Published by Providence Rhode Island: Berg Publishers Limited, 1993

Language: English

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Title: Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow ...

Publisher: Providence Rhode Island: Berg Publishers Limited

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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Edition: 1st Edition

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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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