Representing Masculinity in First World War Art

Abstract

In my thesis, I shall investigate one constituent of what we might call the myth of the modern soldier as it was worked out in the Great War: I will analyse how the traditional elements of the manly ideal changed as a result of the experience of the Great War and how they had an effect on the discourse of masculinity and on the representations of the male body in different forms of art from war poetry through memoir writing to some works of fine arts.