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Isherwood, Ian Andrew. "The greater war : British memorial literature, 1918-1939." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3462/.

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This thesis concerns non-fiction ‘war books’ published in the inter-war period. War books were mostly written by participants in the First World War who contributed to Britain’s memory culture afterwards through the publication of their accounts. The war books catalogue represents diversity in terms of the experiences depicted and the geographic locations represented. Though they went through distinctive periods of popularity, war books were published throughout the inter-war period, and in great numbers. The publishing industry was receptive to martial literature and encouraged its publicatio

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McArthur, Kathleen Maureen. "The heroic spirit in the literature of the Great War." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23680.

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Brearton, Frances Elizabeth. "Creation from conflict : the Great War in Irish poetry." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5042/.

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This thesis explores the impact of the First World War on the imaginations of six poets - W.B. Yeats, Robert Graves, Louis MacNeice, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley - all of whom have written in wartime: Graves in the Great War, Yeats in the Great War, the Anglo-Irish War and the Civil War, MacNeice in the Second World War, Mahon, Longley and Heaney in the Northern Ireland Troubles. The thesis locates affinities between these poets in their response to violence, and compares the ways in which they have imaginatively appropriated the images and events of the Great War to facilita

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Swallow, Andrew Bolton. "The Great War : images of reality in the French novel." Thesis, University of Hull, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305000.

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Leadingham, Norma Compton. "Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1966.

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During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth of modern mechanical warfare. The majority and most recognized and admired poets, including those who served on the front and knew firsthand the horrors of trench warfare, not only supported the war effort, but also encouraged its continuation. For the majority of the poets, the rejection of the war was

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Briggs, Marlene A. "Haunted armistice: The Great War, modern British literature, and the mourning of historical trauma." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8746.

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The Armistice serves as the Great War's haunted point of closure in Britain. By combining literary and historical analysis with psychoanalysis and trauma theory, my interdisciplinary approach to the Great War enables a multifaceted exploration of the dynamics of unresolved mourning after catastrophic events through both general and historically specific modes of investigation. Chapter One addresses the unresolved crises of cultural and medical mediation occasioned by shell shock. I then suggest that contemporary scholarship which reformulates trauma and mourning after Freud's Beyond the Pleasu

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Phillips, James. "The enemy within : division and betrayal in literature of the Second World War." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8402/.

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Although descriptions of civilian experience during the Second World War tend to stress concepts of unity and the nation 'pulling together', much literature ofthe period repeatedly suggests division and distrust, and fears of an 'enemy within' that can be seen directly in the numerous fifth columnist plotlines and more indirectly through stories of personal treachery and duplicity. Here the work of a number of authors writing during World War II is examined, with close comparison of how themes of betrayal and mistrust are woven into their texts. This is placed in context through consideration

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Briggs, Marlene. "Haunted armistice, the Great War, modern British literature, and the mourning of historical trauma." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ48090.pdf.

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Potter, Jane Elizabeth. "Boys in khaki, girls in print : women's literary responses to the Great War, 1914-1918." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286947.

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French, Larry T. "POW/MIC: Prisoners of Words/Missing in Canon: Liberating the Neglected British War Poets of The Great War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1857.

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Since the First World War ended in 1918 and anthologies began to emerge, limited attention has been paid to the poets of this era. While a few select male poets have achieved canonicity, women war poets of this era have fallen into enigmatic obscurity. The intention of this paper is to expound, explicate, and expose the difficulties relating to gaining entry into the canon of English literature, especially where the poets of The Great War are concerned. This paper discusses the absence of the most profound and foreshadowing poems written during the war through research of scholarly journals an

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Starr, Robert. "'Nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified' : Irish literary responses to the Great War." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108220/.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the trenches as privates and who, collectively, it is argued here, constitute a distinct trio of war writers. Through considerations of class, camaraderie, violence, religion, trauma and the body, and engaging with scholars such as John Fordham, David Taylor and Sarah Cole, this thesis will consider these Irish soldiers within a cultural, social and historical context. Central to this examination is the idea that the motives f

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Brandt, Sheldon. "Commemoration and the Great War: The Return of the Soldier, the Unknown Soldier and Mrs. Dalloway." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104840.

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Criticism on Great War memorialisation typically argues one of two things: that monuments were erected as authentic expressions of grief or that monuments were erected for political purposes. This study attempts to reconcile these diverging views by exploring the effects of Great War propaganda and memorialisation on individual consciousness. This study is particularly concerned with the genesis of the nation—or imagined community—and how traditions, monuments, and cultural symbols construct Englishness during and after the Great War. Ideology transforms individuals into national subjects. The

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Wussow, Helen. "The nightmare of history : the great war and the work of Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302965.

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Kreinbring, Katharine Scheuble. "The Impact of the Great War on the Lives of Women: A Literary Approach." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/402.

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Thesis advisor: Andrew Von Hendy<br>This thesis deals with literature of the Great War and examines the situation of women in this period through the characters in fiction works of the period with the support of non-fiction works by Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas) and Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. Through literature rather than direct historical approach, this thesis looks at the ways in which the war impacted the lives of women. The five fictional works dealt with are Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Aldous Huxley's short story “Farcical History of Richard G

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Garlitz, Richard P. "Responses to catastrophe from Henri Barbusse to Primo Levi : rethinking the Great War and the Holocaust in literary history." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217399.

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This thesis examines how the First World War and the Holocaust fit into Western history and literary history by. It takes as its point of departure two arguments that currently enjoy, the favor of many specialists. First, it critiques the idea that the literature of the First World War is firmly embedded in the Western literary heritage while that of the Holocaust lies outside the realm of expression, a position that Jay Winter has taken a leading role in developing. Second, it challenges the notion that the Holocaust is an occurrence in history to which no other event offers parallels. The st

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Özden-Schilling, Thomas Charles. "Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35704.

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Thesis (S.B. in Literature)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Introduction: The infantrymen of the Great War experienced the unimaginable. Soldiers in the trenches internalized images of confusion and gore, and returned to a society unwilling and often unable to comprehend their sacrifices. For nearly 65,000 of these soldiers, their experiences on the front brought on hysteria, mental breakdown, muteness, paralysis, and other bizarre physical maladies (ER, 189). The medical description of the mental conditions that pre

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Ferris, Natalie. "'Ludic passage' : abstraction in post-war British literature, 1945-1980." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b3034e6-3a32-4684-b8a0-eb91cfc756c6.

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This thesis traces a line of literary experimentation in post-war British literature that was prompted by the aesthetic, philosophical and theoretical demands of abstraction. Spanning the period 1945 to 1980, it observes the ways in which certain aesthetic advancements initiated new forms of literary expression to posit a new genealogy of interdisciplinary practice in Britain. It is the first sustained chronological study to consider the ways in which a select number of British poets, authors and critics challenged the received views of their post-war moment in the discovery of the imaginative

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Murphy, Amy Tooth. "Reading the lives between the lines : lesbian literature and oral history in post-war Britain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4243/.

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In existing scholarship of twentieth-century British lesbian history the post-war period has been largely overlooked. Whereas the interwar period and the 1970s and 1980s have garnered much critical interest as crucial loci of lesbian identity formation, the post-war period has been obscured between the two. What work does exist has focused almost exclusively on the creation of lesbian public spaces and lesbian communities. This has been to the exclusion of research into lesbian home and private life, and has also served to obscure experiences of closeted or isolated women. The critical focus o

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Decker, Martin [Verfasser]. "Irish Identities and the Great War in Drama and Fiction / Martin Decker." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1116874733/34.

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Cobley, Jennifer Francis. "The construction and use of gender in the pamphlet literature of the English Civil War, 1642-1646." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169833/.

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This thesis examines how the authors of ephemeral print used the gender framework for political ends during the first Civil War. In particular it considers how both the royalist and parliamentarian pamphleteers constructed and promoted a hegemonic, patriarchal definition of manhood amongst their male supporters in order to encourage them to fight for either king or parliament. It also demonstrates how the pamphleteers of each party drew upon deep-seated cultural allusions and a pre-existing language of insult in order to claim that their enemies were ‘unmanly’ or ‘effeminate’ and therefore una

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Robinson, Emma Louise. "Liberty compromised? : George Orwell, English Law and the Second World War." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7329/.

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This thesis considers George Orwell’s response to the emergency legislation of the Second World War. Considering legal and historical sources alongside his biography and corpus it reassesses the impact of Orwell’s works in the context of his patriotism, Englishness and views on the law. This thesis argues that Orwell’s experiences in Burma and Spain established his expectations – as an Englishman – for the law during a crisis. It juxtaposes Orwell’s pre-war anxiety regarding potentially ‘fascising measures’ to his relative silence when emergency powers were introduced in England, suggesting Or

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Leitch, Megan Glynnis. "Wars of the Roses literature : romancing treason in England c.1437-1497." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610140.

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Steele, Suzanne Marie. "The artist's dilemma : truth, process, and form in the Great War narratives of Robert Graves, Mary Borden, and David Jones." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25878.

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The Great War narrative has been the subject of wide scholarship but there have been no studies that have specifically focused on understanding the ethical and aesthetic struggles of the artist in war, the artist’s dilemma. The generation that experienced the Great War included many giants of twentieth-century intellectual, cultural, and political life, many of whom wrote personal narratives of their experiences. These narratives have contributed to shaping familial stories and the meta-narratives of nation states for generations—sometimes limiting a fuller understanding of the war. Through th

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Allsopp, Niall. "Turncoat poets of the English Revolution." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:72c956c3-ec8b-4b07-ad91-a05b0e72fd39.

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Edmund Waller, William Davenant, Andrew Marvell, and Abraham Cowley were royalist poets who changed sides following the English Revolution, attracted to Cromwellian military power, and the reforming aims of the Independents. This thesis contributes to existing scholarship by showing that the poets engaged strongly with theories of allegiance, self-consciously returning to first principles - the natures of sovereignty and obligation - to develop a concept of allegiance that was contingent and transferrable. Their crucial influence was Hobbes. Hobbes collapsed partisan perspectives into a genera

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Benham, M. Renee. "Beyond Nightingale: The Transformation of Nursing in Victorian and World War I Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490186723107747.

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Goodland, Giles. "Modernist poetry and film of the Home Front, 1939-45." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cbc4f071-0e64-4a07-866d-ba83359262cb.

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This thesis is an exploration of the links between modernist literature and film and society at a period of historical crisis, in Gramscian terms a moment of national 'popular will'. In general, these works are informed by a greater organicity of form, replacing the previous avant-garde model of a serial or mechanical structure. This organicity, however, maintains an element of disjunction, in which, as with filmic montage, the organicity is constituted on the level of the work seen as a totality. Herbert Read's aesthetics are shown to develop with these changes in the Thirties and the war yea

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Farewell, Joseph. "Siegfried Sassoon and Rebecca West: A Dual-Commentary on the English Home Front in World War I." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/99.

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The glory of war is dead, and the Great War killed it. Soldierly dignity, heroism, and proper field chivalry; all laid to waste by a single mortar round at Arras. This ethos—a vestige of Greek warrior worship—stood little chance against the trenches. It either drowned in the fecal trench muck at the Somme or staggered back—in tatters, if that—a broken soul; another victim of the so-called “Good Fight.” And there were many victims. An entire generation, even, lost to the trenches. But that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that home front in England didn’t even get it.

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Fletcher, Martin John. "The view from The Waste Land : how Modernist poetry in England survived the Great War." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/149526.

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O poema icônico de T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, publicado em 1922, é indiscutivelmente o texto principal de poesia moderna em inglês. Eliot residia em Londres no momento da sua composição, e embora o poema contenha numerosas citações literárias e culturais, The Waste Land não é considerado como tendo sido influenciado por nenhum dos poetas ingleses que foram contemporâneos de Eliot. Pelo contrário, o poema é tido como um afastamento radical e uma reação contra, a poesia inglesa escrita antes e durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Neste artigo, eu argumento que The Waste Land contém ec

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Kichner, Heather J. "Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the Nineteenth Century through the Great War." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=case1212645077.

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Siebrits, Andre. "The role of great power war in the rise of Hegemons : a study of Dutch Hegemonic ascent in the modern world-system." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2787.

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Thesis (MA (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the claim that Great Power Wars are a necessary condition for successful hegemonic ascent in the modern world-system, primarily from the standpoint of World- Systems Analysis. This study advances the conception of hegemony primarily in economic and state terms, and it was investigated, by way of a historical case study, how the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) impacted the economic domains of agro-industrial production, commerce, and finance of the United Provinces of the Netherlands,

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Boykin, Dennis Joseph. "Wartime text and context Cyril Connolly's Horizon /." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1959.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis examines the literary journal Horizon, its editor Cyril Connolly, and a selection of its editorial articles, poems, short stories and essays in the context of the Second World War, from 1939-45. Analyses of these works, their representation of wartime experience, and their artistic merit, serve as evidence of a shared and sustained literary engagement with the war. Collectively, they demonstrate Horizon’s role as one of the primary outlets for British literature and cultural discourse during the conflict. Previous assessments of the magazine as an a

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Light, Alison. "Forever England : femininity, literature, and conservatism between the wars /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1991. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/91000587-d.html.

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Duggett, Thomas J. E. "Wordsworth's Gothic politics : a study of the poetry and prose, 1794-1814." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/361.

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McCracken, David E. "The Great Plains trilogy. Book one, These God-forsaken lands. Part one (of three), Wayward horse." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391232.

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This is the first of three parts in the first of three planned novels, collectively called The Great Plains Trilogy, which takes place between 1841 and 1845. Set against such historical events as the Battle of Plum Creek and the Texas Council House Fight, Part One follows Lock (a.k.a. Aidan Plainfield) in 1841, whose wife and daughter were killed by Comanches during the Victoria raid of 1840. Since the raid, Lock has left his life behind, surviving alone in the Great Plains. One morning he discovers that Comanches have stolen his horse, and he sets off to recover it. Along the way, he meets Mr

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Thompson, Andrew Carl. "Conrad Eymann: A Microhistory of Changing German-Canadian Identity during the First World War." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276989758.

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Olsson, Carl. "The Poet as Hero : A Study of the Clash Between the Hero and the First World War in British Trench Poetry, and Its Use in the Swedish School System Within the Subject of English." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76592.

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This thesis studies the clash between the hero and the First World War in the works of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It explores the impact on their poetry and attitude towards the concept of the hero as it applied to them as people and poets. The study shows that over prolonged contact with the horrors of the First World War, it is evident in both literary sources and their poetry that both Sassoon and Owen changed their attitudes negatively towards both the idea of heroes and heroism, as well as the War as a just and glorious cause. However, the myth of the hero was sti

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Du, Bon-Atmai Evelyn. "Competing Models of Hegemonic Masculinity in English Civil War Memoirs by Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848084/.

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This thesis examines the descriptions of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinity in English Civil War memoirs by women through a close reading of three biographical memoirs written by Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle; Lady Ann Fanshawe; and Lucy Hutchinson. Descriptions of masculinity are evaluated through the lens of Raewyn Connell's theory of hegemonic masculinity to understand the impact two competing models of masculinity had on the social and political culture of the period. The prevailing Parliamentarian hegemonic masculinity in English Civil War memoirs is traced to its origi

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Hale, Frederick. "Literary challenges to the heroic myth of the Voortrekkers : H.P. Lamont's War, wine and women and Stuart Cloete's Turning wheels." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52325.

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Thesis (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of various historical novels which dealt to a greater or lesser degree with the Great Trek and were written between the 1840s and the 1930s in Dutch, Afrikaans and English but with particular emphasis on H.P. Lamont's War, Wine and Women and Stuart Cloete's Turning Wheels (1937). The analysis of all these fictional reconstructions focuses on the portrayal of the Voortrekkers found in them. Much attention is also paid to the historical contexts in which the two principal wo

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Osborne, Wayne D. "Manufacturing and the Great War." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12550.

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In manufacturing and army terms, Britain was not able or geared up to deal with the Great War. It was able to cope with a small, short war on the continent as part of a larger coalition but not the global crisis that came about. Britain s research and development before the Great War had been in the Royal Navy. The army had been neglected. At the outbreak of the war it had been planned for the navy to carry the burden of the conflict but this proved to be an erroneous course of action. Very early in the war it became obvious that the armaments industry was unable to provide the munitions to pr

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Riddell, Linda Katherine. "Shetland and the Great War." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7771.

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The Great War was an enormous global cataclysm affecting the lives of all inhabitants of the combatant countries and many others. The effects were not uniform, however, and, by assessing the experience of the people of Shetland, this thesis shows how a local history can enhance understanding of the nuances of an international event. The Shetlanders’ experience was similar in many ways to that of other communities, but had aspects that were unusual or even unique. Both local and national sources are used to investigate how the Shetland experience fitted into historiographical discourses on the

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Wojnar, Magdalena. "“The bottle of whiskey – a second one – was now in constant demand by all present” : Alcohol Consumption as Cultural Capital and Part of Habitus in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101165.

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This essay investigates the status of alcohol consumption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925). The analysis focuses on character study reading of Jay Gatsby, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, by placing habitus in the specific historical context of the novel. The analysis focuses on the social structures of the alcohol-consuming upper-class Americans, and the reproduction of internalized practices during Prohibition. Drinking alcohol is seen as a valued, cultural capital among the elite society and used as a tool in a competi

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Abelard, Karine. "Edition scientifique des Chroniques des rois, ducs et princes de Bretagne de Pierre Le Baud, d’après le manuscrit 941 conservé à la Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers." Thesis, Angers, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ANGE0025/document.

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La première version des Chroniques des rois, ducs et princes de Bretagne a été rédigée par Pierre Le Baud sur commande de Jean de Châteaugiron,seigneur de Derval, et est achevée en 1480. Deux manuscrits nous sont parvenus de cette rédaction : l’original conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (ms fr.8266) a été édité partiellement en 1907 par Charles de La Lande de Calan, alors que le deuxième, appartenant à la Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers (ms. 941) et copie du premier, n’a jamais fait l’objet d’une transcription.Cette édition transcrit le manuscrit 941 dans sa totalité, c'est‐à‐dir

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Perrone, Fernanda Helen. "The V.A.D.S. and the great war /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66086.

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Maynard, Linda Helen. "Brotherly love in the Great War." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/343/.

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This thesis examines emotional relationships between brothers during the First World War through an exploration of personal narratives, oral histories, and military service tribunal records. Brothers have largely been ignored as a subject of historical analysis. The prevailing ‘vertical’ focus on the mother-son bond and maternal grief has edged male siblinghood to the perimeter of wartime and domestic masculinities. Fraternal stories are embedded in the narrative of the Great War, informing our understanding of the network of domestic ties sustaining men, and the performance of wartime masculi

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Kennedy, Rosalind Joan Sarah. "The Children's War : British children's experience of the Great War." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2006. http://research.gold.ac.uk/10996/.

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The First World War placed children at the heart of the debate about Britain's future. In the face of the enormous destruction of human life and the sacrifice of the economy to the needs of war, children held the promise of a brighter future. Britain was looking not just to rebuild what it had lost but to rebuild a Britain better than it had been before. Children were seen as the key to that process of reconstruction. To prepare them for the task children needed to understand the sacrifices that had been made for them and the importance of accepting their role as responsible citizens of the fu

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Ziino, Bart. "A distant grief : Australians, war graves and the Great War /." Crawley : University of West Australia Press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41067725t.

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Bell, Gilbert Torrance. "Monuments to the fallen : Scottish war memorials of the Great War." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1993. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25326.

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This study attempts to place the war memorials of the Great War within, not only a Scottish, but an international and historical context. Monuments reflect power and prestige as well as demonstrate artistic skill. They are symbols with meanings and expressions of values but while they last the values which they represent change. Their evolution also mirrors changing attitudes to life and death. Monuments to victories and the victorious have given way to those which more democratically commemorate all the Fallen. Cenotaphs have come to be erected at home in memory of those buried elsewhere. Gla

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Barlow, Robin. "Aspects of the Great War in Carmarthenshire." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525478.

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At the turn of the century, Carmarthenshire was a county which exhibited the social and economic pressures which were to transform Wales in the period 1870-1920: there was a shift of emphasis from traditional Welsh-speaking, rural areas to the urban, industrialised belts in the south and east of the county. This study examines how the people of Carmarthenshire responded to the Great War, and studies at a local level the national picture painted by J M Winter in The Great War and the British People. An examination of voluntary recruitment for the armed forces showed that the men of Carmarthensh

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Glassco, David Kidder. "Story and history : exploring the Great War." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1997. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1416.

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This essay suggests that the creative imagination proved to be the most effective guide to the experiences of the Great War. The argument is that the rational consciousness and its received, discursive language proved unable to explore many of the dimensions of an experience that was characterized by the irrational. That most precious of heritages--the language-actually prevented people from seeing and saying what was going on. Most of the memoirs demonstrate a tension between that which is recognized by the rational consciousness and that which is rendered as there by the creative imagination

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Davidson, Melissa. "Preaching the Great War: Canadian Anglicans and the war sermon 1914-1918." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114214.

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When the British declared war on Germany on August 4, 1914, the Dominion of Canada, as part of the British Empire, was also at war. As an overwhelmingly Christian nation, Canada's mobilization included not only its manpower, industrial capacity, and agricultural wealth, but also its spiritual resources. This thesis focuses on views of the Great War offered by Canada's Anglican clerics from 1914 to 1918 through an analysis of sermons and other documents. Situated at a crucial junction between the religious and political life, clerical rhetoric about the war provides an invaluable tool for un

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