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Modern Nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, Trauma and the Second World War.
Title:
Modern Nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, Trauma and the Second World War.
Author:
Hemmings, Robert.
ISBN:
9780748633074
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (169 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Space Between the Wars -- 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses -- 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of 'Autognosis' in the Interwar Years -- 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War -- 5. Look Back to 'Gladness': Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940-5 -- 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936-42 -- 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject -- Conclusion -- Index.
Abstract:
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon’s writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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