The Writing of Anxiety: Imagining Wartime in Mid-century British Culture (Language, Discourse, Society) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Writing of Anxiety: Imagining Wartime in Mid-century British Culture (Language, Discourse, Society) Book

Whereas trauma and memory have come to dominate discussions of World War Two, Lyndsey Stonebridge suggests that it was in fact the representation of anxiety - a state in which we look forwards as well as backwards - that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. For two crucial but understudied second generations, the psychoanalysts who came after Freud and whose work thrived in 1940s Britain, and the later modernists who had cut their teeth on the expressive verve of their First World War-shocked elders, thinking about anxiety, she argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency.Read More

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  • 0230013279
  • 9780230013278
  • Lyndsey Stonebridge
  • 12 July 2007
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
  • 1
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