Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Frayn (0000-0001-6253-1454, Edinburgh Napier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 192-208 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17526272.2018.1490072 |
| OpenAlex | W2859372203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
The way that the First World War would be remembered was yet to be solidified in the years immediately after the Armistice and peace treaties. Using key case studies from the years 1918 to 1930 by combatant authors Gilbert Frankau, Ernest Raymond, C.E. Montague, R.C. Sherriff and Richard Aldington, this article charts the development of the complex relationship between the dominant heroic mode and emergent modern disenchantment. Theories of social remembering provide a valuable framework for understanding the social processes by which disenchantment became a, if not the, widely-held memory of the conflict, reaching acceptance in the War Books Boom that followed the dual successes of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen Nichts Neues, first serialized on the tenth anniversary of the armistice, and Sherriff's Journey's End, first performed the following month
Ancient history · Art history · Combatant · Disenchantment · First world war · Political science · Sociology · World War II · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Military, Security, and Education Studies · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
No man's land
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
Memory in Culture
Time Maps
The Mnemonic Imagination
Faces of Degeneration
The Last Great War
Voices of Collective Remembering
Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory
On Collective Memory
The Generation of Postmemory
Dis/composing the First World War in Britain
History, culture and cognition
Writing disenchantment
Modernity and Enchantment
Rites of Spring
Social Remembering
Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies
C.E. Montague and the Making of Disenchantment, 1914-1921
All Quiet on the Western Front and the Fate of a War
Between Entertainment and Elegy
The Great War and Modern Memory
Introduction
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |