Freedman Death, Men, and Modernism

Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-38372-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 166 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freedman, Ariela

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: Death, Men and Modernism
Chapter 2: The Self-Spectre: Haunted Narrative in Jude the Obscure
Chapter 3: E. M. Forster and the Gender of Dying
Chapter 4: Death Watch: Lawrence, Ford, Freud
Chapter 5: After the Party: Woolf, Mansfield and World War I
Chapter 6: Gifts, Goods and Gods: H.D., Freud and Trauma
Afterword
Bibliography
Index