Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1111695
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.7228/manchester/9780719089220.001.0001
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719089220
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph theorises for the first time soldiers’ disenchantment following the First World War as a condition of industrial modernity which finds an extreme form in the response of mass armies to mechanised conflict. Using author, publisher and periodical archives to chart manuscript development, sales figures and critical response, the monograph draws together works from high modernism, middlebrow and popular fiction in combinations which shed new light on the development of British First World War prose from 1914 to 1930. The combination of theory, archive and text makes an original contribution to our understanding of interwar First World War literature.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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