Titlebook: Reading and the First World War; Readers, Texts, Arch Shafquat Towheed (Senior Lecturer in English),Edmu Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applic

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Introduction other media meant that the First World War was a high point for reading as a way of understanding events. Since the conflict, the experience of readers and reading has been used widely by historians, biographers, novelists and poets to represent the experience of the battlefield. The books and othe

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Impressions of War: Ford Madox Ford, Reading and resentation of the experience is bound up with questions of space and time. While his emphasis on reading as a vicarious experience might be characterised as escapist, expressing a desire for other times and places, I shall argue that Ford’s returns to pre-war fiction are construed in terms of tryin

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Reading the Great War: An Examination of Edith Wharton’s Reading and Responses, 1914–1918ed reader; Wharton read French, Italian and German fluently from childhood. She was also a lifelong reader and lover of books, with a personal library of over 4000 titles on a wide range of subjects, housed in the dedicated library rooms of her two French residences. As she was both a committed read