TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonikowski,Wyatt
TI  - Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction
SN  - 9781317055570
AV  - PR888.W65 .B66 2016 
U1  - 823/.912093561 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - World War, 1914-1918-Literature and the war
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Shell Shock and the Traces of War -- 2 The Invisible Wound: Shell Shock and Psychoanalysis -- 3 Transports of a Wartime Impressionism: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End -- 4 The "Passion of Exile": Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 5 "Death was an attempt to communicate": Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- 6 Conclusion: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Death Drive -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Bonikowski examines how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed in novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf. Situating his study with respect to Freud's concept of the death drive, Bonikowski shows how these novelists drew on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other
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