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Memory, narrative and The Great War: Rifleman Patrick MacGill and the Construction of Wartime Experience

This monograph length study of the solider author Patrick MacGill provides a new approach to the study of the literature of the First World War by a focus on a less well known author. It places MacGill’s work in various interdisciplinary contexts, including an evaluation of the place of memory in writing, a discussion of the role of narrative and a reconsideration of the place of the Great War literary memoire. It employs a social historical approach to understand the changing nature of MacGill’s work and the soldier’s story genre which creates a complex interpretation of the sources and subject.