The silent morning: Culture and memory after the Armistice (Cultural History of Modern War) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719090024 ISBN 13: 9780719090028

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary and are written in a clear, accessible style.

About this title

About the Author:

Trudi Tate is a Fellow of Clare Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge

Kate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge

Review:

One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any, which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in 'The Silent Morning'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0719090024
• ISBN 13: 9780719090028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Tate Trudi, Kennedy Kate