A War Imagined
The First World War and English Culture
Samuel Hynes
- Between
- the
- opulent
- Edwardian
- years
- and
- the
- 1920s
- the
- First
- World
- War
- opens
- like
- a
- gap
- in
- time.
- England
- after
- the
- war
- was
- a
- different
- place;
- the
- arts
- were
- different;
- history
- was
- different;
- sex,
- society,
- class
- were
- all
- different.Samuel
- Hynes
- examines
- the
- process
- of
- that
- transformation.
- He
- explores
- a
- vast
- cultural
- mosaic
- comprising
- novels
- and
- poetry,
- music
- and
- theatre,
- journalism,
- paintings,
- films,
- parliamentary
- debates,
- public
- monuments,
- sartorial
- fashions,
- personal
- diaries
- and
- letters.Told
- in
- rich
- detail,
- this
- penetrating
- account
- shatters
- much
- of
- the
- received
- wisdom
- about
- the
- First
- World
- War.
- It
- shows
- how
- English
- culture
- adapted
- itself
- to
- the
- needs
- of
- killing,
- how
- our
- stereotypes
- of
- the
- war
- gradually
- took
- shape
- and
- how
- the
- nations
- thought
- and
- imagination
- were
- profoundly
- and
- irretrievably changed.
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