Modern nostalgia

Modern nostalgia: Siegfried Sassoon, trauma and the Second World War

by Hemmings, Robert

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"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." "Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his publi…

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

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"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." "Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. It situates his ongoing anxiety about 'Englishness', modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war's return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T.E. Lawrence." "This study teases out the relationship between nostalgia, trauma and autobiography, and forges connections between the literatures of the two world wars. As a case study of modern nostalgia, this book offers an alternative to the perception that Sassoon's historical and cultural relevance touches the First World War only."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2008.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 160 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780748633067, 0748633065
  • oclc:ocn226360323
  • LC Classification:PR6037.A86
  • Dewey Decimal:821.912

Table of Contents

1. 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.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Guerre dans la littérature Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Littératu… History, 20th Century Krig i litteraturen Literature, Modern -- history Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Médecine dans la littérature Medicine in Literature Nostalgia in literature Nostalgie Nostalgie dans la littérature Psychic trauma in literature Psykiska trauman i litteraturen Sassoon, Siegfried Stress Disorders, Traumatic -- psycholo… Trauma Traumatisme psychique -- Dans la littér… War and literature War in literature

Writers

Hemmings, Robert

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