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A War Imagined: First World War and English Culture
by Hynes, Samuel
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0370304519
- ISBN 13
- 9780370304519
- Seller
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About This Item
The Bodley Head Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 0370304519 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated. xiv, 514 pages clean and tight. Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s, between the England of "Pomp and Circumstance", the first Post-Impressionist show and "Man and Superman" and the England of "The Waste Land", "Facade" and "The Green Hat", World War I opens like a gap in history, separating one world of beliefs and values from another, and changing not only the map of Europe, but the ways in which men and women imagined reality itself. Because of the war, England after the war was a different place: the arts were different; history was different; sex, society, class were all different. Samuel Hynes records the process of that transformation of the English imagination, from the war's beginning, through crises and disasters, into post-war England with its disillusionment, social fragmentation and "Waste Land" spirit. He draws not only on the major literary texts of those years, but on newspaper and magazine writings, paintings, music, parliamentary debates, films, personal diaries and letters. From this store of contemporary records comes a portrayal of the great change that the war forced upon English imaginations, and of the cultural consequences. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145671
- Title
- A War Imagined: First World War and English Culture
- Author
- Hynes, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0370304519
- ISBN 13
- 9780370304519
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
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