The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice

Author:   Trudi Tate ,  Kate Kennedy ,  Bertrand Taithe ,  Penny Summerfield
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719090028


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Trudi Tate ,  Kate Kennedy ,  Bertrand Taithe ,  Penny Summerfield
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780719090028


ISBN 10:   0719090024
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: ‘This grave day’ – Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy 1. The parting of the ways: The Armistice, the Silence and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s end – John Pegum 2. Alfred Döblin’s November 1918: The Alsatian prelude – Klaus Hofmann 3. ‘A strange mood’: British popular fiction and post-war uncertainties – George Simmers 4. Fighting the peace: Two women's accounts of the post-war years – Alison Hennegan 5. King Baby: Infant care into the peace – Trudi Tate 6. ‘What a victory it might have been’: C. E. Montague and the First World War – Andrew Frayn 7. The Bookman, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Armistice – Jane Potter 8. ‘Misunderstood ... mainly because of my Jewishness’: Arthur Schnitzler after the First World War – Max Haberich 9. Leaping over shadows: Ernst Krenek and post-war Vienna – Peter Tregear 10. Silence recalled in sound: British classical music and the Armistice – Kate Kennedy 11. Sacrifice defeated: The Armistice and depictions of victimhood in German women’s art 1918–24 – Claudia Siebrecht 12. ‘Remembering, we forget’: British art at the Armistice – Michael Walsh 13. Indecisive victory? : German and British soldiers at the Armistice – Alexander Watson 14. Mixing memory and desire: British and German war memorials after 1918 – Adrian Barlow Bibliography Notes on contributors Index -- .

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'One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any, which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in 'The Silent Morning'.' -- Susan Smart.


One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any, which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in 'The Silent Morning'. -- .


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Trudi Tate is a Fellow of Clare Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Kate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge -- .

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