Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War....Pages 29-44
Towards a Popular Canon: Education, Young Readers and Authorial Identity in Great Britain between the Wars....Pages 45-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Impressions of War: Ford Madox Ford, Reading and Parade’s End....Pages 63-77
Reading the Great War: An Examination of Edith Wharton’s Reading and Responses, 1914–1918....Pages 78-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
‘Please send me Tess of the Dr. Rbyvilles (Harding)’: The Reading Preferences of American Soldiers during the First World War....Pages 99-114
‘Today they read even those who did not read’: Reading in Italy during the First World War....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War....Pages 133-152
A Captive Audience? The Reading Lives of Australian Prisoners of War, 1914–1918....Pages 153-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Reading Behind the Lines: War Artists, War Poets, Reading and Letter Writing, 1917–1919....Pages 171-189
Only a ‘Scrap of Paper’: The Prison Reading of British Conscientious Objectors, 1916–1919....Pages 190-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
German Soldier Newspapers and Their Allied Counterparts....Pages 209-226
Forbidden Reading in Occupied Countries: Belgium and France, 1914–1918....Pages 227-241
Back Matter....Pages 242-266