03766nam 2200661 450 991046244600332120200520144314.01-4426-9550-110.3138/9781442695504(CKB)2670000000186175(OCoLC)785802977(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541207(SSID)ssj0000654544(PQKBManifestationID)11401554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000654544(PQKBWorkID)10661280(PQKB)10998597(CEL)438675(CaBNVSL)slc00228451(MiAaPQ)EBC4672840(DE-B1597)465187(OCoLC)979968888(DE-B1597)9781442695504(Au-PeEL)EBL4672840(CaPaEBR)ebr11258493(EXLCZ)99267000000018617520160923h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrBe a good soldier children's grief in English modernist novels /Jennifer Margaret FraserToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (281 p.) 1-4426-4313-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Children's Grief: The Return from Exile -- 1. Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief: Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes -- 2. Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys's Five Novellas -- 3. Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier: Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier -- 4. Childhood Grief on the Home Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End -- 5. Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf 's A Haunted House and The Waves -- 6. The 'Laughtears' of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake -- Conclusion: Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn 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, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.Jennifer Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry - both as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war. A phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud, Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and meaning. Be a Good Soldier establishes a pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries into modernist childhood.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismChildren in literatureGrief in literatureGrief in childrenElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Children in literature.Grief in literature.Grief in children.823/.912093523Fraser Jennifer Margaret1966-972811MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462446003321Be a good soldier2212906UNINA