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.

Auteur
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.

Contenu

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Edmund G.C. King and Shafquat Towheed PART I: READING AND THE FORMATION OF THE LITERARY CANON 1. Khaki and Kisses: Reading the romance novel in the Great War; Jane Potter 2. Towards a popular canon: Education, war and authorial identity in Europe, 1914-1929; Alisa Miller PART II: WRITERS' READING AND RESPONSES: FORD MADOX FORD AND EDITH WHARTON 3. Ford Madox Ford, reading, and Parade's End; Max Saunders 4. Reading the Great War: an examination of Edith Wharton's reading and responses, 1914-18; Shafquat Towheed PART III: READING AND THE MASSES: AMERICA AND ITALY 5. 'Please send me Tess of the Dr Rbyvilles (Harding)': the reading preferences of American soldiers; Jonathan Arnold 6. 'Today they read even those who did not read': Reading in Italy during the First World War; Sara Mori PART IV: READING AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' READING AT THE FRONT 7. William Albert Amiet, Barrister-At-Law, M.A., reads his way through the Great War; Jim Cleary 8. A captive audience? The reading lives of Australian prisoners of wars, 1914-18; Edmund G.C. King PART V: READING AND GROUP IDENTITY: WAR ARTISTS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS 9. Reading behind the lines: War artists, war poets, reading and letter writing, 1917-19; Jonathan Black 10. Only a scrap of paper: the prison reading of British conscientious objectors, 1916-19; Catherine Feely PART VI: READING THE NEWS: NEWSPAPERS IN BELGIUM, FRANCE AND GERMANY 11. German soldier newspapers and their Allied counterparts; Robert L. Nelson 12. Forbidden reading in occupied countries: Belgium and France, 1914-18; Emmanuel Debruyne Bibliography Index