CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter

I. Literature

 1.The Uncertain War a Century on: The First World War in British and Irish Fiction

Marie Stern-Peltz

 2.Poetry of the First World War in Britain

Clara Dawson

 3.First World War Short Fiction

Ann-Marie Einhaus

 4.Theatre: 1914 and After

Andrew Maunder

 5.Words from Home: Wartime Correspondences

Alice Kelly

 6.Transnational Lives: Colonial Life Writing and the First World War

Anna Maguire

II. Visual Arts

 7.The ‘abysmal inexcusable middle class’, Painting, Commemoration and the First World War

Matthew C. Potter

 8.‘Varied to Infinity’: The First World War and Sculpture

Laura Brandon

 9.Memorials: Embodiment and Unconventional Mourning

Laura Wittman

10.Posters, Advertising and the First World War in Britain

James Thompson

III. Music

11.‘We think you ought to go’: Music Hall and Recruitment in the First World War

Robert Dean

12.British Soldiers’ Songs

George Simmers

13.The First World War in Popular Music since 1958

Peter Grant

14.Requiems and Memorial Music

Kate Kennedy

IV. Periodicals and Journalism

15.Popular Periodicals: Wartime Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

Kate Macdonald

16.Evolving Wartime Print Cultures of the Anglo-American Modern Literary Renaissance

Christopher J. La Casse

17.Pamphlets and Political Writing

Matthew Shaw

18.‘The whole of war is an atrocity’: Morgan Philips Price and First World War Reporting in the Ottoman/Russian Borderlands

Jo Laycock

V. Film and Broadcasting

19.Official War Films in Britain: The Battle of the Somme (1916), its Impact Then and its Meaning Today

Toby Haggith

20.Too Colossal to Be Dramatic: The Cinema of the Great War

Michael Paris

21.Representations of the First World War in Contemporary British Television Drama

Emma Hanna

22.The Sound of War: Audio, Radio and the First World War

Richard J. Hand

VI. Publishing and Material Culture

23.The British Publishing Industry and the First World War

Jane Potter

24.Photography and the First World War

J. J. Long

25.The Imperial War Museum and the Material Culture of the First World War, 1917–2014

Alys Cundy

26.The Evolution of First World War Computer Games

Chris Kempshall

Contributors

Index