Modern Nostalgia: Siegfried Sassoon, Trauma and the Second World War

by Robert Hemmings

This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748633065
• ISBN13: 9780748633067
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher