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

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

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...

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Main Author: Hemmings, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Sassoon, Siegfried, > 1886-1967 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sassoon, Siegfried, > 1886-1967
Psychic trauma in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
War in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in Literature
Stress Disorders, Traumatic > psychology
History, 20th Century
Literature, Modern > history
Warfare
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