Romanticism and After in France / Le Romantisme Et Après En: Writing the Great War / Comment écrire la Grande Guerre?: Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poétiques francophones et anglophones (Paper

For France the First World War was a war of national self-defence, but for Britain it was not. The essays collected in this bilingual volume, by a range of scholars working on both sides of the Channel, show that while the wider purposes of the war are striking for their absence in both French and British traditions, there are many common strands.