Rupert Brooke in the First World War by Alisa Miller

Rupert Brooke in the First World War by Alisa Miller

Rupert Brooke died in April 1915, on the eve of the Gallipoli landings. During the First World War Brooke was the iconic poet-soldier, adored and mimicked by readers and would-be writers--both in and out of uniform--with an international following that has neither been examined nor explained since. The general shift in attitudes toward war and the manner in which the war poets are presented meant that Brooke was recast as the exemplar of pre-war innocence, forever swimming in faintly saccharine, nakedly patriotic streams born of his famous poems. Rupert Brooke in the First World War takes a celebrity of the war who became an idol for fellow writers, politicians, literary elites and the general public, and tells the story of his life and famously romantic death, providing readers a fuller sense not only of the human being and his singular life and circumstances, but also of the world he inhabited, and the passions and tastes of men and women living through a period of great upheaval.

Alisa Miller is Director of Research at Norwich University of the Arts.

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ISBN 13	9781942954347
ISBN 10	1942954344
Title	Rupert Brooke in the First World War
Author	Alisa Miller
Series	Clemson University Press W Lup
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Clemson University Digital Press
Year published	2018-01-09
Number of pages	296
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