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 completed a Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia which was later published by Rodopi as The Politics of Influence: D.H. Lawrence and German Culture . He taught at the University of East Anglia, and was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently working on a book on contemporary poetry and global politics.

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