Overview
- Tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation
- Explores different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized
- Interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the First World War
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This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the Great War, one that keeps raising key questions on the way cultures respond to times of crisis. Mobilization during the First World War was a major process of material and imaginative engagement unfolding on a military, economic, political and cultural level, and existing identities were dramatically challenged and questioned by the whirl of discourses and representations involved.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Frameworks
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War unites a wide range of insights and offers a useful reading for different audiences. Its multifaceted, transnational approach and the attention that is devoted to often overlooked aspects of the war are just two elements that contribute to the innovative character of the book. It is a refreshing and timely contribution to World War I scholarship which will undoubtedly inspire future research in the field of cultural studies and beyond.” (Eline Batsleer, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)
“The book showcases the vast range of scholarly work that the cultural study of the First World War can generate. If the richness of approaches may at times come to the detriment of the overall cohesion of the volume, this issueis widely compensated by the high quality of all of the contributions, wisely edited into compact thematic sections resulting in a book that solidly contributes to the interdisciplinary and intermedial ethos that informs today’s scholarship.” (Guido Bartolini, Modern Language Review, Vol. 117 (4), October, 2022)
“The book showcases the vast range of scholarly work that the cultural study of the First World War can generate. If the richness of approaches may at times come to the detriment of the overall cohesion of the volume, this issueis widely compensated by the high quality of all of the contributions, wisely edited into compact thematic sections resulting in a book that solidly contributes to the interdisciplinary and intermedial ethos that informs today’s scholarship.” (Guido Bartolini, Modern Language Review, Vol. 117 (4), October, 2022)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the Director of The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies and the Italo-Scottish Research Cluster. She has published widely on the Italian literary canon and its margins, with applications from continental philosophy and biopolitics.
Cristina Savettieri is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. From 2015 to 2017 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she carried out an EU-funded research project on gender and nationalism in WWI Italian literature.
Cristina Savettieri is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. From 2015 to 2017 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she carried out an EU-funded research project on gender and nationalism in WWI Italian literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War
Book Subtitle: History, Representations and Memory
Editors: Federica G. Pedriali, Cristina Savettieri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42791-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42790-0Published: 20 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42793-1Published: 20 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42791-7Published: 19 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: History of Military, Memory Studies, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Social History