Rupert Brooke in the First World War

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Alisa Miller

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Rupert Brooke died in April 1915, on the eve of the Gallipoli landings. During the First World War Brooke was the iconic poet-soldier, adored and mimicked by readers and would-be writers—both in and out of uniform—with an international following that has neither been examined nor explained since. The general shift in attitudes toward war and the manner in which the war poets are presented meant that Brooke was recast as the exemplar of pre-war innocence, forever swimming in faintly saccharine, nakedly patriotic streams born of his famous poems. Rupert Brooke in the First World War takes a celebrity of the war who became an idol for fellow writers, politicians, literary elites and the general public, and tells the story of his life and famously romantic death, providing readers a fuller sense not only of the human being and his singular life and circumstances, but also of the world he inhabited, and the passions and tastes of men and women living through a period of great upheaval.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-04-01
Mått163 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt432 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClemson University Press w/ LUP
Antal sidor296
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781800859579

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Dr Alisa Miller holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, an MA from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the comparative development of war cultures in twentieth century Europe and the United States, looking at how evolving literary networks – utilizing different forms of media and technology – influence political discourses and perceptions of violence. She has worked as a lecturer and in research policy and management. She joined King’s College London in October 2016 to work on the ERC-funded ‘Beyond Enemy Lines’ and ‘Ego-Media’ projects.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionI.LifeChapter 1: YouthChapter 2: The IdyllChapter 3: Self-mobilisationChapter 4: EnlistmentChapter 5: War and WaitingChapter 6: The War SonnetsChapter 7: TransportII.AfterlifeChapter 8: Patriotic PoetryChapter 9: Public DeathChapter 10: SyndicationChapter 11: ImageChapter 12: PatronsChapter 13: ReadersChapter 14: Poet-soldiersChapter 15: Careful CriticsChapter 16: ExportConclusionBibliography