Nurse-Martyr-Heroine
Representations of Edith Cavell in Interwar Britain, France and Belgium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison S Fell (0000-0002-9016-0715, University of Leeds, corresponding author), Claudia Sternberg (University of Leeds) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 273-290 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| 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 | 10.1080/17526272.2018.1530524 |
| OpenAlex | W2897705718 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
After her 1915 execution in occupied Brussels for her role in organizing an escape network for French and British soldiers, British nurse Edith Cavell became a household name, and her fame as a ‘martyr-heroine’ persisted in the decades following the Armistice. This article compares and contrasts a range of sculptures, monuments and films featuring Edith Cavell that were produced during the interwar years in Britain (and what were then the Dominions), France and Belgium. Whereas existing studies of Edith Cavell have tended to focus on those produced in the Anglophone world, and to argue that she is universally made to embody female martyrdom against a ‘barbarous’ enemy, this article reveals that the different and evolving national and political contexts in which these cultural representations were produced resulted in important variations in the ways in Cavell was depicted
Adversary · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Interwar period · Literature · Martyr · Political science · Politics · Sculpture · World War II · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |