 | The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body Subjects: Unknown military personnel -- Social aspects -- Italy; Unknown military personnel -- Political aspects -- Italy; Soldiers’ monuments -- Social aspects -- Italy; War memorials -- Social aspects -- Italy; Mourning customs -- Italy; Human body -- Symbolic as; 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. Wittman Laura : Laura Wittman is an assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. |
