Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming the Great War Anderson Emily
Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming the Great War Anderson Emily This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the conflict.…
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Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming the Great War Anderson Emily
This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the conflict. Emily Anderson argues that this humorous literature helped to transform the war into quotidian experience. In contrast to the well-known First World War literature that focuses on extraordinary emotional disruption and the extremes of war, this study shows other writers used humour to create a gentle, mild amusement, drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before 1914.
Each chapter examines key examples of literary texts, ranging from short stories and poetry, to theatre and periodicals. Based on little-known primary material uncovered through detailed archival research, the book focuses on works that, while written by celebrated authors, tend not to be placed in the canon of Great War literature. In doing so, the book investigates the complex political and
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