Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War Vrije Universiteit Brussel
What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World War, from helmets, trench art and tombstones to shop signs, military newspapers and leaflets dropped from airplanes. 'Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War' asks what experimental writers read into these objects and how the conflict ...