Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Women's Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century

by Amanda Jones

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 women's writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. This volume includes examples of children's adventure fiction, as well as works written for adult audiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367666464
• ISBN13: 9780367666460
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages