Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War

History, Representations and Memory

  • Book
  • © 2020

Overview

Editors:
  1. Federica G. Pedriali

    1. School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Cristina Savettieri

    1. Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation
  • Explores different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized
  • Interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the First World War

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Cristina Savettieri, Federica G. Pedriali
    Pages 1-15

  5. Conceptual Frameworks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Women, Heroism and the First World War

      • Angela Hobbs
      Pages 127-148

    3. Bared and Grievable: Theory Impossible in No Man’s Land

      • Federica G. Pedriali
      Pages 149-181

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book tackles cultural mobilization in the First World War as a plural process of identity formation and de-formation. It explores eight different settings in which individuals, communities and conceptual paradigms were mobilized. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it interrogates one of the most challenging facets of the history of the Great War, one that keeps raising key questions on the way cultures respond to times of crisis. Mobilization during the First World War was a major process of material and imaginative engagement unfolding on a military, economic, political and cultural level, and existing identities were dramatically challenged and questioned by the whirl of discourses and representations involved.

Reviews

“Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War unites a wide range of insights and offers a useful reading for different audiences. Its multifaceted, transnational approach and the attention that is devoted to often overlooked aspects of the war are just two elements that contribute to the innovative character of the book. It is a refreshing and timely contribution to World War I scholarship which will undoubtedly inspire future research in the field of cultural studies and beyond.” (Eline Batsleer, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)

“The book showcases the vast range of scholarly work that the cultural study of the First World War can generate. If the richness of approaches may at times come to the detriment of the overall cohesion of the volume, this issueis widely compensated by the high quality of all of the contributions, wisely edited into compact thematic sections resulting in a book that solidly contributes to the interdisciplinary and intermedial ethos that informs today’s scholarship.” (Guido Bartolini, Modern Language Review, Vol. 117 (4), October, 2022)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Federica G. Pedriali

  • Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Cristina Savettieri

About the editors

Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the Director of The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies and the Italo-Scottish Research Cluster. She has published widely on the Italian literary canon and its margins, with applications from continental philosophy and biopolitics.


Cristina Savettieri is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. From 2015 to 2017 she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where she carried out an EU-funded research project on gender and nationalism in WWI Italian literature.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mobilizing Cultural Identities in the First World War

  • Book Subtitle: History, Representations and Memory

  • Editors: Federica G. Pedriali, Cristina Savettieri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42791-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42790-0Published: 20 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42793-1Published: 20 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42791-7Published: 19 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 236

  • Topics: History of Military, Memory Studies, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Social History

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation