Be a Good Soldier : Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels /

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"In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, i...

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Main Author: Fraser, Jennifer Margaret, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Grief in literature.
Grief in children.
English fiction.
Children in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Chagrin chez l'enfant.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Children's Grief: The Return from Exile
  • Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief :Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes
  • Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys' Five Novellas
  • Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier
  • Childhood Grief on the Home-Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End
  • Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House and The Waves
  • The "Laughtears" of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
  • Conclusion : Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child.

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