ISBN:
9780754660170
,
9781138257283
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 217 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
An Ashgate book
DDC:
305.3109410904
Keywords:
Masculinity in popular culture History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects
;
Great Britain
;
Memorialization History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
War memorials Social aspects
;
Great Britain
;
National characteristics, British History
;
20th century
;
Psychic trauma History
;
20th century
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain History
;
George V, 1910-1936
Abstract:
"With its specific focus on British representations of masculinity in relation to the trauma of the First World War and notions of national identity, class and sexuality, this book provides a much needed addition to the historiography of visual culture during the period. The study interrogates the complications arising out of issues of trauma, cultural expressions of sexuality and affect, as well as the ways in which these are encoded in diverse forms in visual culture and commemorative objects. Concentrating on masculinity and cultural memory, it investigates the ways in which these and the web of power relations that they entail worked during the interwar years in order to reconstruct the post-First World War British society. In the course of the narrative, the author looks at Bolshevism and the Returning Ex-Servicemen, the 1919 NUR Strike, the Central Labour College in conjunction with banners and revolution, as well as the Imperial War Graves, the Cenotaph, the London and North Western Railway memorial, the Machine Gun Corps Memorial and the establishment of the Imperial War Museum. He also excavates new archival material, particularly case studies of shell shock sufferers and film footage of male hysteria."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes index. - First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210)
