List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Dreading Forward: The Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime The Childhood of Anxiety Bombs and Roses: The Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green's Caught Bombs, Birth and Trauma:...
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...