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Contemporary emotional responses to the Great War. Laura Servilan Brown

Contemporary emotional responses to the Great War. Laura Servilan Brown. What emotional images come to mind when you think of the Great War?. “ Dulce et decorum est; pro patria mori ”. Downton Abbey , ITN, 2011. The Great War v the Second World War. Emotional Marketing?.

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Contemporary emotional responses to the Great War. Laura Servilan Brown

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  1. Contemporary emotional responses to the Great War.Laura Servilan Brown

  2. What emotional images come to mind when you think of the Great War?

  3. “Dulce et decorum est; pro patria mori”

  4. Downton Abbey, ITN, 2011.

  5. The Great War v the Second World War. Emotional Marketing?

  6. (i) How did people at the time react to the challenges they were faced with? (ii) Was there an emotional turn in Great Britain in the years 1914-1918 as a result of the Great War?(iii) Can we apply Barbara Rosenwein’s methodology for the study of the history of emotions to the Great War? Key Questions

  7. Barbara Rosenwein’s Methodology • Gather documents. • Acknowledge problems of language /Consider if language is genuine/Be aware of the use of euphemisms/Remember that people used irony. • Use contemporary theorists re emotions. • Weigh relative value of emotions against one another. • Read the silences. • Consider the social role of emotions. • Trace changes over time.

  8. Gather documents. ‘Diary’ of B.J. Brookes

  9. Acknowledge problems of language - authenticity, euphemism and irony.

  10. Use contemporary theorists re: emotions. Dr. Charles Myers

  11. Weigh relative value of emotions against one another. V A ‘coward’ is presented with a white feather. Lieut. Maurice Dease, first V.C. winner of the Great War.

  12. ‘You love us when we’re heroes, home on leave,  Or wounded in a mentionable place.  You worship decorations; you believe  That chivalry redeems the war’s disgrace.  You make us shells. You listen with delight, By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled.  You crown our distant ardours while we fight,  And mourn our laurelled memories when we’re killed.  You can’t believe that British troops ‘retire’  When hell’s last horror breaks them, and they run, Trampling the terrible corpses—blind with blood.    O German mother dreaming by the fire,    While you are knitting socks to send your son    His face is trodden deeper in the mud.’ Read the silences. Siegfried Sassoon

  13. Consider the social role of emotions.

  14. Trace changes over time. V The Sudan Monument 1889 Great War Memorial 1920

  15. Conclusions • During the years of the Great War, Britain as an emotional community continued to value traditional national virtues such as bravery, self-sacrifice and emotional continence. • The inter-war period saw a great outpouring of public emotion in terms of culture and changing social mores. • Present-day assumptions about the Great War are often made based on emotives from this post-war period of reflection rather than the war itself. • Barbara Rosenwein’s model is a useful way of getting past this confusion and accessing the realities of the British emotional community in the period 1914-8.

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