Fell, AS and Sternberg, C (2018) Nurse-Martyr-Heroine: Representations of Edith Cavell in Interwar Britain, France and Belgium. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 11 (4). pp. 273-290. ISSN 1752-6272
Abstract
After her 1915 execution in occupied Brussels for her role in organizing an escape network for French and British soldiers, British nurse Edith Cavell became a household name, and her fame as a ‘martyr-heroine’ persisted in the decades following the Armistice. This article compares and contrasts a range of sculptures, monuments and films featuring Edith Cavell that were produced during the interwar years in Britain (and what were then the Dominions), France and Belgium. Whereas existing studies of Edith Cavell have tended to focus on those produced in the Anglophone world, and to argue that she is universally made to embody female martyrdom against a ‘barbarous’ enemy, this article reveals that the different and evolving national and political contexts in which these cultural representations were produced resulted in important variations in the ways in Cavell was depicted.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of War & Culture Studies on 16 Oct 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17526272.2018.1530524. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Edith Cavell; First World War; commemoration; films; memorials; interwar |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC AH/P006655/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2018 09:23 |
Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17526272.2018.1530524 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136299 |