Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Nank, Christopher
URN	etd-06072005-165446
Title	World War I Narratives and the American Peace Movement, 1920-1936
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	English, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title John Fenstermaker Committee Chair
Keywords	Lost Generation Pacifism War Fiction World War American History
Date of Defense	2005-04-29
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The aim of this project is to conduct analyses of twelve American novels and one short story collection published between 1920 and 1936 and to demonstrate their effect in scripting cultural memory and in shaping public sentiment toward military intervention in the United States during that period. Specifically, these novels, all dealing directly with the First World War or its fallout/aftermath, provided a rhetorical framework within which pacifist, isolationist, and anti-militarist elements were ultimately able to influence legislation directly regarding the role America would play in the world’s conflicts until 1941. Furthermore, following years of official propaganda and press censorship and in the absence of any modern mass media, they represented for the post-war public nearly the sole outlet through which the experience of the war could be “accurately” or “authoritatively” rendered. As a result, American public feeling toward military intervention turned increasingly negative during the interwar period, mirroring in many ways the fictional works’ own bitter and disillusioned (if not outright horrified or defeated) tones. Highlighting the theories of Vincent J. Roscigno’s and William Danaher’s 2001 study on the “shaping” ability of music on the goals and aims of striking textile workers in the 1930s South, I will demonstrate a parallel effect of these selected American World War I novels during the 1920s and 1930s.
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