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001480801 1001_ $$aAnderson, Emily,$$eauthor.
001480801 24510 $$aHumour in British First World War literature :$$btaming the Great War /$$cEmily Anderson.
001480801 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2023]
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001480801 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001480801 5050_ $$aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: '[A]s in most war fiction, humour predominates' -- Defining Humour -- Humour in the Field of Great War Studies -- The Scope of Humour in British First World War Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: Humour and Britishness During the Great War: 'If a man brings us a joke, we require to be satisfied of its durability' -- The Roots of British Wartime Humour -- 'Jokes Should Be Taxed in England like Opium in China': The Britishness of Humour as a Minor Feeling -- The Boundaries of British Humour -- References
001480801 5058_ $$aChapter 3: The Domestication of Death: 'There are lots of jokes' -- 'What Did I Say About That Face?' Death Comes Home in A Well-Remembered Voice -- 'There Once Was a Man in a Trench': Death in Trench-Newspaper Limericks and Nursery Rhyme Parodies -- 'Let Us Be Our Ordinary Selves, Won't You?': Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Class and Social Structure: 'It is not taken seriously' -- 'It's a Great Leveller This Army': Class, Revolution, Oblique Joking -- 'I've Only Learnt Things Like Greek and Latin and French and Spanish': Upper Class Women in War
001480801 5058_ $$a'It Turns Out to be No Bomb [...] Recommended for License': Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: War and the Depiction of Gender: 'Let us hope for the best and assume that he is dead' -- 'You'll Find Him Different': Wartime Masculinity and Male Relationships -- 'They Are Having the Time of Their Lives, Probably Being Quite Useful too': War and Roles for Women -- 'We Must All Do More: It Being War time and All That': Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The War and the Domestic Sphere: 'That perpetual sense of the ridiculous'
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001480801 520__ $$aThis book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War helped to familiarise, domesticate and tame the conflict. In contrast to the well-known First World War literature that focuses on extraordinary emotional disruption and the extremes of war, this study shows other writers used humour to create a gentle, mild amusement, drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before 1914. Emily Anderson argues that this humorous literature helped to transform the war into quotidian experience. Based on little-known primary material uncovered through detailed archival research, the book focuses on works that, while written by celebrated authors, tend not to be placed in the canon of Great War literature. Each chapter examines key examples of literary texts, ranging from short stories and poetry, to theatre and periodicals. In doing so, the book investigates the complex political and social significance of this tame style of humour. Emily Anderson is Associate Lecturer in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests are in humour and whimsy in British literature, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
001480801 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2023).
001480801 650_0 $$aEnglish literature$$xHistory and criticism.$$xHistory and criticism$$0(DLC)sh2007100761
001480801 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$xLiterature and the war.$$0(DLC)sh 85111865
001480801 650_0 $$aEnglish wit and humor$$xHistory and criticism.$$0(DLC)sh 85043984
001480801 650_0 $$aWorld War, 1914-1918$$xHumor.$$0(DLC)sh 85111865
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