War Trauma and English Modernism

This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.

Autorentext

Carl Krockel

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow Testimony before Trauma: Eliot's Poetry up to 1915 Testimony as History: The First 'Women in Love' Eliot's War Poetry: Hysteria to The Waste Land Working Through: Lawrence 1918 to 1930 Trauma Transfigured: The Hollow Men to Little Gidding Conclusion: The Legacy of War on the Legacy of Modernism Bibliography Index