The Silent Morning : Culture and Memory after the Armistice.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Cultural History of Modern War Series .
- Cultural History of Modern War Series .
Cover -- The silent morning -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: 'This grave day': Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy -- 1 The parting of the ways: The Armistice, the silence and Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: John Pegum -- 2 Alfred Döblin's November 1918: The Alsatian prelude: Klaus Hofmann -- 3 'A strange mood': British popular fiction and post-war uncertainties: George Simmers -- 4 Fighting the peace: Two women's accounts of the post-war years: Alison Hennegan -- 5 King Baby: Infant care into the peace: Trudi Tate -- 6 'What a victory it might have been': C. E. Montague and the First World War: Andrew Frayn -- 7 The Bookman, the Times Literary Supplement and the Armistice: Jane Potter -- 8 'Misunderstood … mainly because of my Jewishness': Arthur Schnitzler after the First World War: Max Haberich -- 9 Leaping over shadows: Ernst Krenek and post-war Vienna: Peter Tregear -- 10 Silence recalled in sound: British classical music and the Armistice: Kate Kennedy -- 11 Sacrifice defeated: The Armistice and depictions of victimhood in German women's art, 1918-24: Claudia Siebrecht -- 12 'Remembering, we forget': British art at the Armistice: Michael Walsh -- 13 Indecisive victory? German and British soldiers at the Armistice: Alexander Watson -- 14 Mixing memory and desire: British and German war memorials after 1918: Adrian Barlow -- Select bibliography -- Index.
The first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.