Shell shock and the modernist imagination : the death drive in post-World War I British fiction / Wyatt Bonikowski.

  • Bonikowski, Wyatt.
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[2013], ©2013
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2013], ©2013.

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viii, 192 pages ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.

Contents

Introduction: shell shock and the traces of war -- The invisible wound: shell shock and psychoanalysis -- Transports of a wartime impressionism: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end -- The "passion of exile": Rebecca West's The return of the soldier -- "Death was an attempt to communicate": Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- Conclusions: the ethics and aesthetics of the death drive.

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    History of Medicine
    PUW.AI.41
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  • 9781409444176
  • 1409444171
  • 9781409444183
  • 140944418X
  • 9781472402882
  • 147240288X