LEADER 04809nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910811333903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-22626-X 010 $a9786613226266 010 $a0-7748-5693-9 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774856935 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000358 035 $a(OCoLC)226375639 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10210514 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000643799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11408315 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668795 035 $a(PQKB)10269282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)406864 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00602873 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412452 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10221824 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322626 035 $a(OCoLC)923444776 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/6xjjf5 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3253086 035 $a(DE-B1597)661287 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774856935 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000358 100 $a19870202d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe great war of words $eBritish, American and Canadian propaganda and fiction, 1914-1933 /$fPeter Buitenhuis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aVancouver $cUniversity of British Columbia Press$d1987 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 199 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7748-0308-8 311 $a0-7748-0270-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tSigns and Portents of War -- $tThe Reasons Why: Setting Up the Propaganda Machine -- $tThe Pamphlet War -- $tMasterman's Motley Army-and Two Outsiders -- $tPropaganda in America -- $tPropaganda From America -- $tOver There: Drawing the Paper Curtain -- $tFiction as Propaganda: War Stories -- $tHome Fires Burning Low: Fiction as an Escape From Propaganda -- $tNew Brooms of Propaganda -- $tLost Opportunities -- $tDisillusionment and Reconstruction: Writers Reflect on the War -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliographical Note -- $tIndex 330 $a'I wouldn't have had one of you stay at home though I had a dozen sons. That is, if it is the noble war they all say it is. . . Surely they wouldn't deceive mothers.' -- J.M. Barrie In September 1914, twenty-five of Britain's most distinguished authors met under the chairmanship of C.F.G. Masterman, head of the war propaganda bureau, to discuss how they could assist the Allied effort. They included such prominent figures as H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, John Masefield, John Buchan, Edith Wharton and Henry James. In The Great War of Words Peter Buitenhuis tells the hitherto unknown story of the secret collaboration between leading writers and the government. He examines the propaganda books and articles they wrote -- and also the work of those opposed to the war, such as G.B. Shaw and Bertrand Russell. The official line was the the 'urbane' French and the 'decent' British had to defend civilization against the savagery of the invading 'Huns'. However, after the war, many writers became deeply embittered about the Allied propaganda machine and their role in it. There was a growing conviction that too many lies had been told and that in propagating Allied myths, they had sacrificed the all-important detachment of the writer. Buitenhuis chronicles both the disillusionment of the former propagandists and the reaction against their elders by younger writers, many of whom had served in the trenches. The consequences for post-war literature were profound: the prestige and power of authorship dwindled significantly, while the old rhetoric based on a widely held consensus collapsed and was replaced by lean, ironic and often understated modes of writing. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPropaganda 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xLiterature and the war 606 $aPropaganda, British 606 $aPropaganda, American 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPropaganda, Canadian 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xPropaganda. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xLiterature and the war. 615 0$aPropaganda, British. 615 0$aPropaganda, American. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPropaganda, Canadian. 676 $a940.4/886 700 $aBuitenhuis$b Peter$0168994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811333903321 996 $aThe great war of words$94127524 997 $aUNINA