War Trauma and English Modernism [electronic resource] : T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence /
Krockel, C.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow; 2 Testimony before Trauma: Eliot's Poetry up to 1915; 3 Testimony as History: The First "Women in Love"; 4 Eliot's War Poetry: "Hysteria" to The Waste Land; 5 Working Through: Lawrence in the Twenties; 6 Trauma Transfigured: "The Hollow Men" to Little Gidding; Conclusion: The Legacy of War upon the Legacy of Modernism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Poetry.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.