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The Writing of Anxiety : Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture /

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This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stonebridge, Lyndsey (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Language, discourse, society.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Social History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Social history.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge 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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 173 pages)
ISBN:9780230592025
DOI:10.1057/9780230592025