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dc.contributor.authorMaynard, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-06T04:30:27Z
dc.date.available2021-02-06T04:30:27Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46548
dc.description.abstractDrawing on a broad range of personal accounts, this is the first detailed study of siblinghood in wartime. The relative youth of the fighting men of the Great War intensified the emotional salience of sibling relationships. Long separations, trauma and bereavement tested sibling ties forged through shared childhoods, family practices, commitments and interests. We must not equate the absence of a verbal language of love with an absence of profound feelings. Quieter familial values of kindness, tolerance and unity, instilled by parents and reinforced by moral instruction, strengthened bonds between brothers and sisters. Examining the nexus of cultural and familial emotional norms, this study reveals the complex acts of mediation undertaken by siblings striving to reconcile conflicting obligations to society, the army and loved ones in families at home. Brothers enlisted and served together. Siblings witnessed departures and homecomings, shared family responsibilities, confided their anxieties and provided mutual support from a distance via letters and parcels. The strength soldier-brothers drew from each other came at an emotional cost to themselves and their comrades. The seismic casualties of the First World War proved a watershed moment in the culture of mourning and bereavement. Grief narratives reveal distinct patterns of mourning following the death of a loved sibling, suggesting a greater complexity to male grief than is often acknowledged. Surviving siblings acted as memory keepers, circumventing the anonymisation of the dead in public commemorations by restoring the particular war stories of their brothers.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FV Historical fictionen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farmingen_US
dc.subject.otherFiction
dc.subject.otherHistorical
dc.subject.otherWorld War I
dc.subject.otherTechnology & Engineering
dc.subject.otherAgriculture
dc.titleBrothers in the Great War
dc.title.alternativeSiblings, masculinity and emotions
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd
oapen.relation.isbn9781526146151
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintManchester University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/8d9dbf57-7222-4934-8170-e7dd4ab7a78a
oapen.identifier.isbn9781526146151


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