Reporting the First World War in the Liminal Zone British and American Eyewitness Accounts from the Western Front /

• Main Author: Prieto, Sara (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; United States-History.; Military history.; Civilization-History.; Journalism.; History of Modern Europe.; US History.; History of Military.; Cultural History.

This book deals with an aspect of the Great War that has been largely overlooked: the war reportage written based on British and American authors' experiences at the Western Front. It focuses on how the liminal experience of the First World War was portrayed in a series of works of literary jou...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Reporting the First World War in the Liminal Zone
• Chapter 2. Pioneers: Entering the War Zone
• Chapter 3. The Liminal Tunnel: Authorial Voices in the War Zone
• Chapter 4. The Turning Point? Journalists at the Somme
• Chapter 5. The American Rite of Passage
• Chapter 6. Incorporation: Post-war and Disenchantment
• Index.