@article{1480801,
      recid = {1480801},
      author = {Anderson, Emily,},
      title = {Humour in British First World War literature : taming the  Great War /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great  War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the  conflict. In contrast to the well-known First World War  literature that focuses on extraordinary emotional  disruption and the extremes of war, this study shows other  writers used humour to create a gentle, mild amusement,  drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before  1914. Emily Anderson argues that this humorous literature  helped to transform the war into quotidian experience.  Based on little-known primary material uncovered through  detailed archival research, the book focuses on works that,  while written by celebrated authors, tend not to be placed  in the canon of Great War literature. Each chapter examines  key examples of literary texts, ranging from short stories  and poetry, to theatre and periodicals. In doing so, the  book investigates the complex political and social  significance of this tame style of humour. Emily Anderson  is Associate Lecturer in the School of English Literature,  Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. Her  research interests are in humour and whimsy in British  literature, focusing on the late nineteenth and early  twentieth centuries.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480801},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34051-2},
}