{"product_id":"9781780933375","title":"Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War","description":"Using extensive data - mostly gleaned from the National Archives - this  book examines the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in  the First World War were represented in society and by themselves,  exploring the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national  identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing  on two widows, the book encourages their individual stories to emerge  and gives a voice to an otherwise forgotten group of women whose stories  have been lost under the literary tomes of middle-class writers such as  Vera Brittain and May Wedderburn Cannon. The discussion is further  informed by a wider reading of 300 other such files, which allows wider  observations to be made about the nature of the discourses examined, and  offers the most complete possible picture for such data. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering  a streamlined adaptation of the Discourse-Historical Approach to  critical discourse analysis, \u003ci\u003eDiscourses Surrounding British Widows of  the First World War\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how this model of analysis can be  used to investigate a large body of data from a wide variety of sources,  covering a long period of time. As such it will be useful to all  scholars in their analysis of historical corpa.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135566987504,"sku":"9781780933375","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780933375_p0.jpg?v=1763715533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780933375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}