Bringing Up War-Babies

Autorentext

Amanda Jones was awarded a Ph.D in English Literature by Anglia Ruskin University in 2015. She also writes fiction. She has also written several articles which focus on middlebrow literature and psychoanalytic theory, children's literature and women's writing.

Klappentext

The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material - biographical, literary and historical - to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women's writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after.

Inhalt

1. Adventures and Analysis: Anxiety, Danger and Psychoanalysis in three 1940s Children's Adventure Novels 2. Containment and Mothering 3. Social Reform, Welfare and the Child at Mid-Century 4. Evacuation and Enuresis: The Chameleon Child 5. Literary Mothers 6. Postwar Parenting and Ambivalence