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War Trauma and English Modernism

T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

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  • © 2011

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  1. Carl Krockel
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 1-23

  3. Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 24-43

  4. Testimony before Trauma: Eliot’s Poetry up to 1915

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 44-59

  5. Testimony as History: The First “Women in Love”

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 60-88

  6. Eliot’s War Poetry: “Hysteria” to The Waste Land

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 89-127

  7. Working Through: Lawrence in the Twenties

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 128-155

  8. Trauma Transfigured: “The Hollow Men” to Little Gidding

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 156-196

  9. Conclusion: The Legacy of War upon the Legacy of Modernism

    • Carl Krockel
    Pages 197-211

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 212-241
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This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.

About the author

CARL KROCKEL completed a Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia which was later published by Rodopi as The Politics of Influence: D.H. Lawrence and German Culture. He taught at the University of East Anglia, and was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently working on a book on contemporary poetry and global politics.

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