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British identity in World War I : the lost boys / Mary K. Laurents.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laurents, Mary K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Sociological aspects.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Psychological aspects.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Lexington Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation--Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain--as well as other less typical cases--George Mallory and JRR Tolkien--to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: British Upper-Class Identity as a Legitimizing Collective Identity Chapter 2: The Fracture of Upper-Class Identity Chapter 3: Cultural or Collective Trauma and Collective Identity Chapter 4: Forms of Resistance Identity Chapter 5: Project Identities: Pacifism and Building an Anti-Modern World
- ISBN:
- 1-66698-560-0
- 1-7936-1743-0
- OCLC:
- 1501679729
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