The Writing of Anxiety

Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-28456-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 173 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stonebridge, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Dreading Forward: The Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime The Childhood of Anxiety Bombs and Roses: The Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green's Caught Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W.Winnicott The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and Rebecca West Hearing them Speak: Voices in Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald Postscript Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her publications include , (edited with John Phillips), and (edited with Marina Mackay).