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War and the cultural construction of identities in Britain / edited by Barbara Korte and Ralf Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 0929-6999 ; 59.
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society--Great Britain--Congresses.
- War and society.
- Nationalism--Great Briain--Congresses.
- Nationalism.
- War in literature--Congresses.
- War in literature.
- Mass media and war--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Mass media and war.
- Public opinion--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Public opinion.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2002.
- Contents:
- Wars and 'British' Identities
- From Norman Conquerors to Bosnian Warriors An Overview of Cultural Representations / Barbara Korte 9
- The History and Role of the Imperial War Museum / Diana Condell 25
- Facts and Fictions
- The Norman Conquest / Fritz Kemmler 39
- The Bayeux Tapestry and All That Images of War and Combat in the Arts of Medieval England / Ute Engel 61
- 'Tales of Iron Wars'
- Shakespeare and the Uncommon Soldier / Bernhard Klein 93
- 'Lines Suggested by the War in the Crimea' Florence Nightingale and the Role of the Individual Soldier / Thomas Rommel 109
- The Fantastic in Poetry of the First World War / Paul Goetsch 125
- "What does 'our country' mean to me an outsider?" Virginia Woolf, War and Patriotism / Eveline Kilian 143
- World War and Women
- Advance and Retreat / Jenni Calder 163
- Men Who Pushed and Went West Britain, War and Fiction, 1914-1926 / Christopher Harvie 183
- The Tripod in the Trenches Media Memories of the First World War / Claudia Sternberg 201
- National Identity and the Battle of Britain / Paul Addison 225
- Britain, Britishness and the Blitz Public Images, Attitudes and Visions in Times of War / Helge Nowak 241
- England's Finest
- Battle Fields and Football Grounds in John King's Football Novels / Silvia Mergenthal 261
- 'Britons' at War
- A Selective Chronology / Dorothea Flothow 269.
- Notes:
- Internat. conference proceedings.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9042012595
- OCLC:
- 49722097
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