Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War

Cedric Van Dijck

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Cedric Van Dijck, University of Brussels

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: March 2025
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781399507882

Subjects:: Literature, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

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What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets dropped from airplanes. Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War asks what experimental writers read into these objects and how the conflict prompted a way of thinking of their writings as objects in their own right. Ranging from 1914 to the early 1940s, the chapters in this book weave together prose and poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and Mulk Raj Anand.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Series Editors’ Preface
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-15

1 - Guillaume Apollinaire’s Curiosities
pp 16-49

2 - E. M. Forster in the Streets
pp 50-87

3 - Monuments in Virginia Woolf and Hope Mirrlees
pp 88-127

4 - Mulk Raj Anand in the Mud
pp 128-163

Coda: At the Museum
pp 164-173

Bibliography
pp 174-196

Index
pp 197-201

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