Writing of Anxiety - Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture

Informationen zum Autor LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her publications include The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism , Reading Melanie Klein (edited with John Phillips), and British Fiction After Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century (edited with Marina Mackay). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: L Stonebridge, L. Stonebridge, Lyndsey (University of East Anglia) Stonebridge, Lyndsey (University of East Anglia) S Stonebridge
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781349284566
• ISBN: 978-1-349-28456-6
• No. of pages: 183
• Series: Language, Discourse, Society; Language, Discourse, Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Social History, Fiction, Social & cultural history, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, culture;Rebecca West;time;British and Irish Literature