1st Edition
Death, Men, and Modernism Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf
By Ariela Freedman
Copyright 2003
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.... Read more
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
Biography
Ariela Freedman
