Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History

by M. Hammond (Editor), S. Towheed (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during this time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230500761
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/16/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

GRACE BROCKINGTON British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Clare Hall and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN COLCLOUGH Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK SANTANU DAS British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, UK KEITH GRIEVES Reader in History at Kingston University, UK SARA HASLAM Lecturer in Literature at the Open University, UK NICHOLAS HILEY Head of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent, UK AMANDA LAUGESEN Lecturer in History and American Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia KATE MACDONALD Research Associate at the Department of English Literature, University of Ghent, Belgium JESSICA MEYER Recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK JOHN PEGUM Recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK RAINER PÖPPINGHEGE CEO of the Historical Institute, Paderborn University, Germany JANE POTTER Senior Lecturer in Publishing, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Hammond & S.Towheed PART 1: PROFIT AND PATRIOTISM For Country, Conscience and Commerce: Publishers and Publishing, 1914-1918; J.Potter 'No such bookselling has ever before taken place in this country': Propaganda and the Wartime Distribution Practices of W.H. Smith and Son; S.Colclough Translating Peace: Pacifist Publishing and the Transmission of Foreign Texts; G.Brockington PART 2: READING AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Sepoys, Sahibs and Babus: India, the Great War and Two Colonial Journals; S.Das The Battle of the Books: Supplying Prisoners of War; R.Pöppinghege Australian Soldiers and the World of Print During the Great War; A.Laugesen PART 3: WRITING THE TRENCHES The Tuition of Manhood: 'Sapper's' War Stories and the Literature of War; J.Meyer British Army Trench Journals and a Geography of Identity; J.Pegum 'A New and Vital Moral Factor': Cartoon Book Publishing in Britain during the First World War; N.Hiley PART 4: ENLISTED AT HOME Translating Propaganda: John Buchan's Writing during the First World War; K.Macdonald Making a Text the Fordian Way: Between St Dennis and St George , Propaganda and the First World War; S.Haslam Depicting the War on the Western Front: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Publication of The British Campaign in France and Flanders ; K.Grieves Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'This fine book presents important new research on the cultural history of the First World War. It brings neglected areas of knowledge into focus, deepening our understanding of book history, and of the complex and various activities undertaken by writers, publishers, propagandists, and journals during the war. The essays are lively, intelligent, well researched and well written. A valuable new study for scholars, and an excellent resource for students.' - Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK

'A highly welcome contribution to the field, this book about publishing during the Great War addresses who was reading what, and where. The international scope of the volume demonstrates the interconnected world of print, and its documentation will ground future research in the field.' - Professor Margaret R. Higonnet, University of Connecticut, USA

'This volume offers much valuable work in the ongoing war of representation and illustrates how much can be illuminated by the various disciplinary perspectives that make up the History of the Book.' - Andrew Nash, Times Literary Supplement

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