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Bringing Up War-Babies The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century
By Amanda Jones
Copyright 2018
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. This volume includes examples of children’s adventure... Read more
1. Adventures and Analysis: Anxiety, Danger and Psychoanalysis in three 1940s Children’s Adventure Novels 2. Containment and Mothering 3. Social Reform, Welfare and the Child at Mid-Century 4. Evacuation and Enuresis: The Chameleon Child 5. Literary Mothers 6. Postwar Parenting and Ambivalence
Biography
Amanda Jones was awarded a Ph.D in English Literature by Anglia Ruskin University in 2015. She also writes fiction. She has also written several articles which focus on middlebrow literature and psychoanalytic theory, children's literature and women's writing.
