Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming the Great War

by Emily Anderson

This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War worked to familiarise, domesticate, and tame the conflict. While well-known examples of First World War literature often emphasize enormous emotional disruption and the war's extremes, other writers used humour to encourage a gentle, mild amusement, drawing on familiar, popular genres and forms used before 1914. In humorous portrayals of the war, tameness outdoes the unmanageable and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031340507
• ISBN13: 9783031340505
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"