| Description |
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 13 |
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Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 13.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Adventures and analysis: anxiety, danger and psychoanalysis in three 1940s children's adventure novels -- Containment and mothering -- Social reform, welfare and the child at mid-century -- Evacuation and enuresis: the chameleon child -- Literary mothers -- Postwar parenting and ambivalence -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material biographical, literary and historical to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between womens writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. This volume includes examples of childrens adventure fiction, as well as works written for adult audiences and important and previously unrecognized similarities are noted.?The war was a disruptive influence in the lives of all who lived through it. Although active self-censorship is observed in the behaviour and attitudes of adults at this time, this book demonstrates how fictional children are able to articulate feelings such as anxiety and fear that adults were under pressure to conceal or to repress and at times, the figure of the wartime child becomes a surrogate for the writer herself or her suppressed fears and anxiety. When peace returned, this study finds women writers quick to identify and communicate a discomfiting new ambivalence between parents and children."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain
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Children in literature.
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War in literature.
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Anxiety in literature.
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Parenthood in literature.
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War and literature
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Anxiety in literature
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Children in literature
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Children's literature, English
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English literature
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English literature -- Women authors
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Parenthood in literature
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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War in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351387057 |
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1351387057 |
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9781351387064 |
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1351387065 |
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9781351387040 |
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1351387049 |
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9781315143989 |
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1315143984 |
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