The peculiar sanity of war
Subtitle: hysteria in the literature of World War I
By: Celia Malone Kingsbury.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Literature and the war.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; War and literature -- English-speaking countries.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects.; War neuroses -- History -- 20th century.; Hysteria in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SUPERFICIALITY AND REPRESSION 1 Peculiar Sanity In Prewar Conventions Peculiar Sanity 1 Fear and Morality 4 Peculiar Sanity in the Manor House: Ford's The Good Soldier 12 Superficiality: Ford's The Good Soldier 18 Repression: Conrad's "The Return" 21 INTO THE RABBIT HOLE 2 Madhouse to Charnel House 35 Temperance and Tin Cans: Morality in America 36 "The Little Good for Nothing's Good for Something After All": Cather's One of Ours 39 Lovely Creek: Another Prison Full of Screaming Hysterics 43 Hollow Men: Conrad's Heart of Darkness 48 THE EVE OF APOCALYPSE 3 The Endless Summer 57 Reasoned Rhetoric 59 The Prosaic Walkyrie: Wharton's A Son at the Front 61 The War That Will End War 72 Hockey and War at the Dower House: Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through 74 SPIES AND LIES 4 The Hun Next Door 83 Blood and Kultur 92 Some Do: Ford's Parade's End 95 The Book: Ford's Parade's End 97 Rumor and Duty: Conrad's "The Tale" 102 No Absolutes, No Absolutions: Conrad's "The Tale" 110 PSYCHIC STRESS AND PSYCHOBABBLE 5 Memory and Repression 115 Memory 121 Memory Lost: West's The Return of the Soldier 122 Memory Regained: Ford's Parade's End 129 Civilians 132 Surreal City: H. D.'s Kora and Ka and Bid Me to Live 134 "Pestis Teutonicus": Kipling's "Mary Postgate" and "A Madonna of the Trenches" 136 Genteel Sadism: Kipling's "Mary Postgate" 138 The Demon of Mons: Kipling's "A Madonna of the Trenches" 140.