TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freedman, Ariela
TI  - Death, men, and modernism: trauma and narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf 
SN  - 0415943507
U1  - 823.0093548 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - British Fiction
KW  - English Fiction
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Modernism (Christian theology)
N2  - 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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