Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

The Writing of Anxiety

Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture

  • Book
  • © 2007

Overview

Authors:
  1. Lyndsey Stonebridge

    1. University of East Anglia, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: ‘Dreading Forward’: the Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 1-13

  3. Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 14-32

  4. The Childhood of Anxiety

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 33-54

  5. Bombs and Roses: the Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green’s Caught

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 55-74

  6. Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 75-91

  7. The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and Rebecca West

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 92-114

  8. Hearing Them Speak: Voices in Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald

    • Lyndsey Stonebridge
    Pages 115-134

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 135-173
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully in mid-century wartime culture. Thinking about anxiety, Lyndsey Stonebridge argues, was a way of imagining how it might be possible to stay within a history that frequently undermined a sense of self and agency.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of East Anglia, UK

    Lyndsey Stonebridge

About the author

LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her publications include The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism, Reading Melanie Klein (edited with John Phillips), and British Fiction After Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century (edited with Marina Mackay).

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation