Reading and the First World War

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War

Chapter 3 Towards a Popular Canon: Education, Young Readers and Authorial Identity in Great Britain between the Wars

Chapter 4 Impressions of War: Ford Madox Ford, Reading and Parade’s End

Chapter 5 Reading the Great War: An Examination of Edith Wharton’s Reading and Responses, 1914–1918

Chapter 6 ‘Please send me Tess of the Dr. Rbyvilles (Harding)’: The Reading Preferences of American Soldiers during the First World War

Chapter 7 ‘Today they read even those who did not read’: Reading in Italy during the First World War

Chapter 8 William Albert Amiet, Barrister-at-Law, M.A., Reads His Way through the Great War

Chapter 9 A Captive Audience? The Reading Lives of Australian Prisoners of War, 1914–1918

Chapter 10 Reading Behind the Lines: War Artists, War Poets, Reading and Letter Writing, 1917–1919

Chapter 11 Only a ‘Scrap of Paper’: The Prison Reading of British Conscientious Objectors, 1916–1919

Chapter 13 Forbidden Reading in Occupied Countries: Belgium and France, 1914–1918