Be a Good Soldier : : Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels / / Jennifer Fraser.
In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile
- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas
- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End
- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves
- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index