"Posthumous Lives looks at how the dead of World War I were both remembered and memorialized (in public and privately) in the months, years, and decades after war's end. By looking at debates about how to commemorate the dead--and which dead to memorialize--London explores the compelling hold over the English national imagination that World War I still has."--
Publisher:Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press [2022]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: the afterlife of commemoration -- Material boys: lives of the dead and the objects of biography -- Sorley's travels: the afterlife of a World War I poet -- Posthumous was a woman: war memorials and Woolf's Dead Poets Society -- Absent from memory: shot at dawn and the spectacle of belated remembrance
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