Marysa Demoor is Professor Emerita at Ghent University. Demoor is the author of A Cross-Cultural History of Britain and Belgium, 1815-1918 Mudscapes and Artistic Entanglements (Palgrave, 2022). With Ingo Berensmeyer and Gert Buelens she has co-edited the Cambridge Handbook to Literary Authorship (Cambridge, 2019). With Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2009) and the Dictionary of 19C Journalism (British Library & Academia Press, 2009). She is the editor of Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880 1930 (Palgrave, 2004) and the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, 1870 1920 (Ashgate, 2000).Cedric Van Dijck is a postdoctoral fellow in English Literature at the University of Brussels (VUB). He is a co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and The Intellectual Response to the First World War (2017). His research on modernism and war has appeared in PMLA, TSLL, Modernism/modernity, Times Literary Supplement and Modernist Cultures.Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the author of Modernist Literature and European Identity (Routledge, 2020).
"""This volume is a pathbreaking global history of the press in the period of the First World War. The contributors' range is remarkable. They survey publications of many different kinds in Europe, Asia and Africa and offer readers a host of new perspectives on the political, social and cultural history of the Great War."" -Jay Winter, Yale University"