British identity in World War I : the Lost Boys / Mary K. Laurents.

Author: Laurents, Mary K, author.

ImprintLanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Descriptionv, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Note:British Upper-Class Identity as a Legitimizing Collective Identity -- The Fracture of Upper-Class Identity -- Cultural or Collective Trauma and Collective Identity -- Forms of Resistance Identity -- Project Identities: Pacifism and Building an Anti-Modern World.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.

Note:This book analyzes the development of the Lost Generation narrative following the First World War. The author examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of the Lost Generation- Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain- as well as other less typical cases- George Mallory and JRR Tolkien- to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British society, culture, and politics.

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