The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body

ISBN: 9781442696006 出版年：2011 页码：451 Wittman, Laura University of Toronto Press

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields; The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier explores the creation and reception of this symbolic national burial as an emblem for modern mourning.