Posthumous lives : World War I and the culture of memory / Bette London.

Author/creator London, Bette author.
Format Book
PublicationIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Descriptionxvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: London, Bette. Posthumous lives. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501762376
LCCN 2021020709
ISBN9781501762352 (hardcover)
ISBN1501762354
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Joyner General Stacks DA577 .L58 2022 ✔ Available Place Hold