Modern nostalgia : Siegfried Sassoon, trauma and the Second World War / Robert Hemmings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemmings, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967--Criticism and interpretation.

Sassoon, Siegfried.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties thirties and forties demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war.

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Space Between the Wars; 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses; 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of 'Autognosis' in the Interwar Years; 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War; 5. Look Back to 'Gladness': Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940-5; 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936-42; 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5188-8

1-281-78585-7

9786611785857

0-7486-3307-3

OCLC:

476197848