Virginie Renard received her PhD in Literature from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2009. She has published several articles on First World War fiction in English and French. She now teaches at the Haute École Charlemagne in Liège (Belgium).

"This book succeeds triumphantly in its task. It offers a brilliant overview of this vital and contested field, together with an insightful and generous reading of the selected literary texts." (Toby Thacker, First World War Studies, Volume 7 Issue 2/2016)

• Content: Setting the Framework. Memory, History, Fiction – The Story of a Myth – Older and Newer Stories of the Great War – Dialogue with the Poetic Forefathers – Re-imagining the Great War in the Age of Trauma – Memory Politics and Practices of Trauma in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy – The Trauma of Loss in Robert Edric’s In Desolate Heaven – Transgenerational Haunting in Pat Barker’s Another World – Metaphors of Remembrance – Sites of Memory.

Virginie Renard received her PhD in Literature from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2009. She has published several articles on First World War fiction in English and French. She now teaches at the Haute École Charlemagne in Liège (Belgium).

"This book succeeds triumphantly in its task. It offers a brilliant overview of this vital and contested field, together with an insightful and generous reading of the selected literary texts." (Toby Thacker, First World War Studies, Volume 7 Issue 2/2016)

• Content: Setting the Framework. Memory, History, Fiction – The Story of a Myth – Older and Newer Stories of the Great War – Dialogue with the Poetic Forefathers – Re-imagining the Great War in the Age of Trauma – Memory Politics and Practices of Trauma in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy – The Trauma of Loss in Robert Edric’s In Desolate Heaven – Transgenerational Haunting in Pat Barker’s Another World – Metaphors of Remembrance – Sites of Memory.

Virginie Renard received her PhD in Literature from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in 2009. She has published several articles on First World War fiction in English and French. She now teaches at the Haute École Charlemagne in Liège (Belgium).

"This book succeeds triumphantly in its task. It offers a brilliant overview of this vital and contested field, together with an insightful and generous reading of the selected literary texts." (Toby Thacker, First World War Studies, Volume 7 Issue 2/2016)

• Content: Setting the Framework. Memory, History, Fiction – The Story of a Myth – Older and Newer Stories of the Great War – Dialogue with the Poetic Forefathers – Re-imagining the Great War in the Age of Trauma – Memory Politics and Practices of Trauma in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy – The Trauma of Loss in Robert Edric’s In Desolate Heaven – Transgenerational Haunting in Pat Barker’s Another World – Metaphors of Remembrance – Sites of Memory.