The Edinburgh companion to the First World War and the arts

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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;This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. 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 -- Images.