The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals

Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck, Birgit Van Puymbroeck (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

552 Seiten

2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5725-2 (ISBN)

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The first reference book on First World War newspapers and magazines from the home front to the front lines.

While literary scholars and historians often draw on the press as a source of information, First World War periodicals have rarely been studied as cultural artefacts in their own right. However, as this volume shows, the press not only played a vital role in the conflict, but also underwent significant changes due to the war. This Companion brings together leading and emerging scholars from various fields to reassess the role and function of the periodical press during the so-called ‘Greater War’. It pays specific attention to the global aspects of the war, as well as to different types of periodicals that existed during the conflict, ranging from trench, hospital and camp journals to popular newspapers, children’s magazines and avant-garde journals in various national and cultural contexts.

Marysa Demoor is Professor Emerita at Ghent University. Demoor is the author of A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Palgrave, 2022). With Ingo Berensmeyer and Gert Buelens she has co-edited the Cambridge Handbook to Literary Authorship (Cambridge, 2019). With Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2009) and the Dictionary of 19C Journalism (British Library & Academia Press, 2009). She is the editor of Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880–1930 (Palgrave, 2004) and the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, 1870–1920 (Ashgate, 2000). Cedric Van Dijck is a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is a co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (2023) and The Intellectual Response to the First World War (2017). His research on modernism and war has appeared in PMLA, TSLL, Modernism/modernity, Times Literary Supplement and Modernist Cultures. Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the author of Modernist Literature and European Identity (Routledge, 2020).

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck, Birgit Van Puymbroeck

Part I: Critical Approaches
1. Materiality
Jane Potter
2. Networks
Edmund G. C. King
3. (Digital) Archives
Jeffrey Drouin
4. Affect and Emotion
Fionnuala Dillane
5. Memory
Hanna Teichler
6. Popular Culture
Maaheen Ahmed

Part II: Contributors
7. Authors
Argha Kumar Banerjee
8. Artists
Selena Daly
9. Editors
Christophe Declercq
10. Journalists
Sara Prieto
11. War Correspondents
Andrew Griffiths
12. Photographers
Jan Baetens

Part III: Events
13. Beginnings
Samuel Foster
14. Battles
Vincent Trott
15. Alliances
Mauro Forno
16. The Armenian Genocide
Claire Mouradian
17. Revolutions
Irina Zhdanova
18. The Influenza Pandemic
Jane Fisher

Part IV: Types of Periodicals
19. Trench Journals
Robert L. Nelson
20. Prisoner-of-War Camp Journals
Anne Schwan
21. Hospital Journals
Jessica Meyer
22. Pacifist Journals
Grace Brockington, Sarah Hellawell, Daniel Laqua
23. Women’s Suffrage and Labour Journals
Maria DiCenzo
24. Avant-garde Journals
Andrew Thacker

Part V: Global Perspectives
25. German Colonial Africa
Daniel Steinbach
26. India
Santanu Das
27. Australia and New Zealand
Patricia Thomas
28. China
Elisabeth Forster
29. Canada
Tim Cook
30. The Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Aksakal, M. Talha Çiçek, Aimee Genell, Dimitris Kamouzis,
Janet Klein, Armen Manuk-Khaloyan, Devi Mays

Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-5725-4 / 1399557254
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-5725-2 / 9781399557252
Zustand	Neuware