The Great War in British Literature

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

Adrian Barlow (Author)

9780521644204, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 20 April 2000

130 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm, 0.232 kg

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Great War of 1914-18 continues to fascinate readers and writers. This book aims to explore the different ways in which this war has featured both as a genre and as a theme in British literature of the past century; it asks what actually is the literature of the Great War, and looks at different ways in which people have read this literature, reacted to it and used it.

Introduction
1. Reading the Great War
2. Approaching the texts
3. Texts and extracts
4. Critical approaches
5. How to write about the Great War in British literature
6. Resources.

Subject Areas: Educational: English literature [YQE]