This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains fourteen new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The book looks comparatively at British, German and Austrian works, covering authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Alfred Döblin, Ford Madox Ford, Philip Gibbs, C. E. Montague, Arthur Schnitzler, Helen Zenna Smith, and Virginia Woolf; composers such as Arthur Bliss and Ernst Krenek; artists Käthe Kollwitz, Käte Lassen, Wyndham Lewis, Lotte Prechner and John Singer Sargent. The chapters discuss the ways in which the war was memorialised in military cemeteries and art exhibitions, and how journals such as the Times Literary Supplement and the Bookman engaged with the Armistice and its aftermath. Together the essays offer new ways of thinking about the hopes and disappointments which accompanied the end of the First World War.
The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits that moment of silence and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary and are written in a clear, accessible style.
The book is aimed at students and academics working on the First World War, as well as students of early twentieth-century literature, music and art history. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the war.
Contributors include distinguished First World War scholars Jane Potter, Claudia Siebrecht, George Simmers and Alexander Watson.
This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains fourteen new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The book looks comparatively at British, German and Austrian works, covering authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Alfred Döblin, Ford Madox Ford, Philip Gibbs, C. E. Montague, Arthur Schnitzler, Helen Zenna Smith, and Virginia Woolf; composers such as Arthur Bliss and Ernst Krenek; artists Käthe Kollwitz, Käte Lassen, Wyndham Lewis, Lotte Prechner and John Singer Sargent. The chapters discuss the ways in which the war was memorialised in military cemeteries and art exhibitions, and how journals such as the Times Literary Supplement and the Bookman engaged with the Armistice and its aftermath. Together the essays offer new ways of thinking about the hopes and disappointments which accompanied the end of the First World War.
The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits that moment of silence and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary and are written in a clear, accessible style.
The book is aimed at students and academics working on the First World War, as well as students of early twentieth-century literature, music and art history. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the war.
Contributors include distinguished First World War scholars Jane Potter, Claudia Siebrecht, George Simmers and Alexander Watson.
Introduction: ‘This grave day’ – Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy
1. The parting of the ways: the Armistice, the Silence and Ford
Madox Ford’s Parade’s End – John Pegum
2. Alfred Döblin’s November 1918: the Alsatian prelude – Klaus
Hofmann
3. ‘A strange mood’: British popular fiction and post-war
uncertainties – George Simmers
4. Fighting the peace: two women's accounts of the post-war years –
Alison Hennegan
5. King Baby: infant care into the peace – Trudi Tate
6. ‘What a victory it might have been’: C. E. Montague and the
First World War – Andrew Frayn
7. The Bookman, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Armistice –
Jane Potter
8. ‘Misunderstood ... mainly because of my Jewishness’: Arthur
Schnitzler after the First World War – Max Haberich
9. Leaping over shadows: Ernst Krenek and post-war Vienna – Peter
Tregear
10. Silence recalled in sound: British classical music and the
Armistice – Kate Kennedy
11. Sacrifice defeated: the Armistice and depictions of victimhood
in German women’s art 1918–24 – Claudia Siebrecht
12. ‘Remembering, we forget’: British art at the Armistice –
Michael Walsh
13. Indecisive victory?: German and British soldiers at the
Armistice – Alexander Watson
14. Mixing memory and desire: British and German war memorials
after 1918 – Adrian Barlow
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index
Trudi Tate is a Fellow of Clare Hall and an Affiliated Lecturer
in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Kate Kennedy is a Research Fellow at Girton College, University of
Cambridge
'One thing is certain: among the thousands of books published to
mark the centenary of the Great War, there will be few, if any,
which examine the immediate aftermath of the fighting as
originally, incisively and movingly as the collections of essays in
'The Silent Morning'.', Susan Smart|'This is a magnificent
collection of essays on an original and exciting topic and will be
a defining volume in the field.'
Santanu Das, King's College, London|The Silent Morning 'fills a
significant gap in the field' and 'paves the way for further
studies, transforming the way in which First World War remembrance
is thought about.'
Hope Wolf, Women: A Cultural Review (26, 1: 2015)
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