Modern nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, trauma and the Second World War /
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Author / Creator: | Hemmings, Robert. |
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Imprint: | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008. |
Description: | vii, 160 p. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7360600 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Literary Nostalgias
- Nostalgia: Pathos and Pathology
- Modernist Nostalgia
- Georgian Nostalgia
- 1. The Space Between the Wars
- Rural Revival and the Georgian Legacy
- The Autobiographical Turn
- 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses
- Trauma
- Traumatic Neuroses and Modern War
- Charles Myers and 'Shell Shock'
- Rivers, Maghull and the English Psychoanalytic Approach
- Uncanny Doublings
- Trauma: The Historical Return
- Sassoon's Rivers
- Visions of War's Return
- 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of 'Autognosis' in the Interwar Years
- The Return of the War: Key Poems of the 1920s
- Prose Autognosis
- Uncanny Returns: Poetry of War and Dreams in the 1930s
- Looking Back: Sassoon's Aesthetics
- 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War
- Awake to the Nightmare: 3 September 1939
- The Limits of Reclusion: Patriotism and the Revival of the Pre-protest War Poet
- Civilian War Poet I: The War Poems
- 5. Look Back to 'Gladness': Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940-5
- Rhymed Ruminations (1940)
- Civilian War Poet II: Wartime Sanctuary and the Limited Consolation of the English Countryside
- The Encroaching War: Trauma and Detachment
- 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936-42
- Narcissism and Autobiography
- Narcissism and Autognosis
- Narcissus and The Old Century
- Nostalgia: Disease and Antidote
- 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject
- The Threshold
- Interiors
- Atop the Stairs
- Constructing the Mature 'Sassoon'
- Ghosts of Selves Past
- Conclusion: Modern Nostalgia, Absence and Loss
- Index