Reading and the First World War : readers, texts, archives

Towheed, Shafquat and Edmund G. C. King, editors

ISBN 10: 1137302704 / ISBN 13: 9781137302700

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2015

About this Item

Towheed, Shafquat and Edmund G. C. King, editors. Reading and the First World War : readers, texts, archives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First edition. New Directions in Book History Series. Hardback, Fine, unread. Illustrated boards. Binding strong and tight. xi, 266pp., b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. What role did reading play in the lives of those who experienced the First World War? This volume demonstrates that reading was both the prime leisure occupation and the main means for transmitting information for combatants and civilians during the war. Ranging from ordinary soldiers to conscientious objectors and from to war artists to civilians in occupied Belgium, the readers uncovered in this volume read for a multitude of reasons. Letters and books sent from home could bring soldiers in touch with family members and memories of lives lived before the war. Newspapers and trench journals helped maintain morale in the trenches and communicated war news and propaganda to civilian audiences. Bringing together respected specialists and emerging scholars, Reading and the First World War reveals the diversity of reading practices at the time and the central importance of reading in the experience of conflict, at the front and at home.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading and the First World War : readers, texts, archives
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137302704
• ISBN 13: 9781137302700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • War
  • History

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Synopsis

Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers.

About the Author

Jonathan Arnold, independent scholar, UK Jonathan Black, Kingston University, UK. Jim Cleary, Griffith University, Australia Emmanuel Debruyne, Université catholique de Louvain, France. Catherine Feely, University of Derby, UK. Edmund G.C. King, Open University, UK. Alisa Miller, Norwich University of the Arts, UK. Sara Mori, independent scholar, Italy Robert L. Nelson, University of Windsor, Canada Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Jonathan Rose, Drew University, USA. Max Saunders, King's College London, UK. Shafquat Towheed, Open University, UK.