Death, men, and modernism: trauma and narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf
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823 TWE Twelve modern short stories | 823.008091712 COL Colonial and postcolonial fiction: an anthology | 823.009 BAL/M Masterpiece of English novelists | 823.0093548 FRE/D Death, men, and modernism: trauma and narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf | 823.0093559 HUG/D Dressed in fiction | 823.0098914 FAC Facets of Indian diasporic writings | 823.0099282 WAT/R Reading series fiction: from Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp |
Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I
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