Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I

This book helps readers understand the extent to which shell shock continues to shape modern memories of the First World War.

List of contents

1. Faces of battle in Mrs Humphry Ward's wartime writing; 2. 'Not yet diagnosed nervous': Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy; 3. No separate peace: A Farewell to Arms as trauma narrative; 4. 'Belated impress': River George and African American shell shock; 5. Sepoy shell shock, Mulk Raj Anand, and the Indian World War I novel; 6. Traumatic topographies in Tender is the Night; Coda. Queer World War I: Isherwood and shell shock sexualities.

About the author

Trevor Dodman is Associate Professor of English at Hood College, Maryland. His articles have been published in such journals as the African-American Review, Twentieth-Century Literature and Exemplaria.

Summary

Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I explores the narrative traces, subaltern faces, and commemorative spaces of shell shock in wartime and postwar novels by Mulk Raj Anand, Ford Madox Ford, Mary A. Ward, George Washington Lee, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Christopher Isherwood.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Dodman, Trevor (Hood College Dodman, Dodman Trevor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107114203
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11420-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism