Modern Nostalgia: Siegfried Sassoon Trauma and the Second World War

Robert Hemmings

This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties thirties and forties demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war.

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Siegfried Sassoon Trauma and the Second World War

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-17

1 - The Space Between the Wars
pp 18-27

2 - Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses
pp 28-53

3 - Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of ‘Autognosis’ in the Interwar Years
pp 54-81

4 - Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon's Patriotic Verse of the Second World War
pp 82-96

5 - Look Back to ‘Gladness’: Nostalgia and Sassoon's Personal Poems, 1940–5
pp 97-111

6 - Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936–42
pp 112-126

7 - Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon's Autobiography and the Modern Subject
pp 127-146

Conclusion
pp 147-156

Index
pp 157-160

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