Wyatt Bonikowski

Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination

The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Bonikowski examines how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed in novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf. Situating his study with respect to Freud's concept of the death drive, Bonikowski shows how these novelists drew on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781138273108
• ISBN-10: 1138273104
• Artikelnr.: 50440040

Autorenporträt

Wyatt Bonikowski is Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
Index.