Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf

ISBN-13: 9780415867115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str.

Ariela Freedman

Opis

Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction: Death, Men and Modernism Chapter 2: The Self-Spectre: Haunted Narrative in Jude the Obscure Chapter 3: E. M. Forster and the Gender of Dying Chapter 4: Death Watch: Lawrence, Ford, Freud Chapter 5: After the Party: Woolf, Mansfield and World War I Chapter 6: Gifts, Goods and Gods: H.D., Freud and Trauma Afterword Bibliography Index

O autorze

Ariela Freedman