Michael Roper
Autore di Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain Since 1800
Opere di Michael Roper
The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War (Cultural History of Modern War) (2009) 11 copie
Strategic Planning for Records and Archives Services (Management of Public Sector Records: A Study Programme) (2000) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
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- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 36
- Popolarità
- #397,831
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
Roper explores the importance of letters to both soldiers and families (and most often mothers) at home, things that soldiers said (and didn’t say) in their letters home, the way their need for comfort and reassurance warred with their desire to protect their mothers, the resentment that sometimes resulted, and the way in which the domestic routines of home were drawn upon and adapted to the trenches. The way in which the grief of fathers was often considered secondary to the grief of mothers is also discussed, and I was intrigued by the suggestion that the Pieta image and surrounding religious symbolism contributes to the elevation of the mother’s grief, to the exclusion of others.… (altro)