Catholic Poets of the Great War
| dc.contributor.advisor | Peppis, Paul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kerr, Mina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-07T22:19:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-07T22:19:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-08-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The First World War poetry canon has long been defined by the works of Anglo-Protestant, agnostic, officer class soldier poets. Though the hegemony of this canon has painted the war as a faith-destroying event, poetic representations of the war involving and often celebrating religious faith were plentiful. Catholicism was a major religion in countries on both sides of the conflict: in 1910, 65% of Europeans were Catholic, including more than 40 million French citizens, 35 million Italians, 38 million Austro-Hungarians, and nearly 6 million people in the British Isles (Liu, Jenkins). This dissertation traces representations of Catholicism in British Isles First World War poetry across a variety of contexts, ranging from high modernist works to Catholic poetry written for popular audiences. Likewise, I investigate the influence of Catholicism upon representations of the war by non-Catholics, including uses of Catholic imagery by secular poets as well as influences of Catholic authors upon non-Catholic ones. I argue for the incorporation of Catholic First World War poetry into anthologies and teaching materials based on the widespread significance I establish of both Catholic poetry and wartime imagery derived from Catholicism. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29815 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
| dc.subject | Catholicism | en_US |
| dc.subject | First World War | en_US |
| dc.subject | Great War | en_US |
| dc.subject | War Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | War Poets | en_US |
| dc.subject | World War One | en_US |
| dc.title | Catholic Poets of the Great War | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of English | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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