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Cullen, Stephen Michael (2011) Oxford's literary war; Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War. The Historian, 110 . ISSN 0265-1076.
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Abstract
The last two decades have seen a slow shift in the academic understanding of the impact of the Great War on interwar Britain. The work of a small group of cultural historians has challenged strongly held pre-existing interpretations of the cultural impact of the Great War. However, there is still a popular perception that the war was characterised by the innocent generation of 1914 marching from an Edwardian summer into an Armageddon which killed most of them, and left the survivors bitter and disenchanted, regretting their participation in a futile conflict, and languishing in the inter-war period, deeply marked by this failure. Yet this is not a view of the war that many of its combatant veterans would have recognised, and, in particular, a productive and influential group of literary veterans, all with connections to Oxford University, who were engaged, in the 1920s and 1930s, in writing a different representation of the meaning and experience of the Great War.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Students and war -- Great Britain -- Oxford -- History -- 20th century, World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war , Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Oxford -- History -- 20th century, University of Oxford, English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Historian | ||||
Publisher: | Historical Association | ||||
ISSN: | 0265-1076 | ||||
Official Date: | September 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | 110 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 |
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