Jennifer Fraser

Be a Good Soldier

Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643130
• ISBN-10: 1442643137
• Artikelnr.: 33806842

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Margaret Fraser holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction Children's Grief: The Return from Exile
Chapter One Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief:Joseph
Conrad's Under Western Eyes
Chapter Two Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys' Five Novellas
Chapter Three Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier in Rebecca
West’s The Return of the Soldier
Chapter Four Childhood Grief on the Home-Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good
Soldier and Parade’s End
Chapter Five Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf's
A Haunted House and The Waves
Chapter Six The “Laughtears” of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake
Conclusion Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child
Notes
Bibliography