Great War Special Issue

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Posted on September 4, 2018 by Susan McCready

Susan McCready

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The journal Lingua Romana has just announced publication of a special issue edited by Susan McCready, France and the Memory of the Great War.  Articles by eight scholars treat a variety of topics about the war and how it is remembered in France. Several of the articles were first presented at our 2017 conference.  

The complete issue is available here:  Lingua Romana

Table of Contents: 

Contemporary Remembrance: The Battle of Verdun in the Public Eye 1916

Clark Hultquist

Gratitude: A Different Kind of War Reparation

Nancy Sloan Goldberg

War, Memory, and Politics: The Case of the French Clergy in the First World War

Anita Marie Rasi May

The First World War: A Turning Point in the History of Death?

Ian Germani

The Shirkers of Life: Suicide in the Trenches

Brigitte Mahuzier

From Mascot to Metaphor: Canine Combatants and the Performance of French Patriotism in the Great War

Lowry Martin

La Grande Illusion, retour aux sources

Frédéric Levéziel

The 1938 Exposition internationale du surréalisme and Acte manqué: The Terror of Memory and the Terror to Come

Maria-Rosa Lehmann

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