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Conversation with Dr. Mary Laurents

about her new book

Location

Online

Date & Time

March 2, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Description

Please join the History Department and the Language, Literacy & Culture Program in a conversation with Dr. Mary K. Laurents (2018 LLC alumna and a UMBC History adjunct) about her new book, British Identity in World War I: The Lost Boys, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Dan Ritschel, Associate Professor of History, will facilitate the discussion.

Dr. Laurents utilized her doctoral research for her book which analyzes the development of The Lost Generation narrative following the First World War.

She examines narratives that illustrate the fracture of upper-class identity, including well-known examples of The Lost Generation, such as Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Vera Brittain, as well as other less typical cases, George Mallory and JRR Tolkien, to demonstrate the effects of the First World War on British Society, culture, and politics.


Dr. Laurents will also discuss the relevance of the impact of identity fracture to the formation of extremist groups in the present day US.

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