Language, Discourse, Society: Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture

Stonebridge, L.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-07-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230013278

DOI: 10.1057/9780230592025

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 173