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...
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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 undermined a sense of self and agency
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Dreading Forward': the Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century; 1 Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime; 2 The Childhood of Anxiety; 3 Bombs and Roses: the Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green's Caught; 4 Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott; 5 The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and Rebecca West; 6 Hearing Them Speak: Voices in Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
