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WWI gave new and vital impetus to the ancient idea that books could heal. This collection provides a targeted survey of 100 years of historical and contemporary understandings and practices of 'the book as cure'. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of literary studies, book history, and the medical humanities.
Siobhan Campbell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts at The Open University, UK. She researches the theory and applications of social literary practice. She has developed creative writing projects to be used therapeutically and for social reconstruction in pressurised environments, with partners like Combat Stress UK, NHS Trusts, NGOs, UNDP and third-sector organisations. Her publications include The Expressive Life Writing Handbook (with Meg Jensen; 2017).
Sara Haslam is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the Open University, UK. A scholar of modernism and First World War literature, her publications include 'Reading, Trauma and Literary Caregiving 1914-1918: Helen Mary Gaskell and the War Library' Journal of Medical Humanities (2018), and Life Writing (with Derek Neale; 2008).
Edmund G. C. King is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University, UK. A book historian with a particular focus on the history of reading, he is most recently the co-editor of Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016 (with Monika Smialkowska; 2021).
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