Posthumous Lives : World War I and the Culture of Memory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

London, Bette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Memorialization.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Memorialization--Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Posthumous Lives looks at how the dead of World War I were both remembered and memorialized (in public and privately) in the months, years, and decades after war's end. By looking at debates about how to commemorate the dead--and which dead to memorialize--London explores the compelling hold over the English national imagination that World War I still has."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: the afterlife of commemoration

Material boys: lives of the dead and the objects of biography

Sorley's travels: the afterlife of a World War I poet

Posthumous was a woman: war memorials and Woolf's Dead Poets Society

Absent from memory: shot at dawn and the spectacle of belated remembrance.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: London, Bette Posthumous Lives

ISBN:

9781501762369

OCLC:

1251742093