The Writing of Anxiety

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: ‘Dreading Forward’: the Writing of Anxiety at Mid-Century

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 1-13

3. Anxiety at a Time of Crisis: Psychoanalysis and Wartime

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 14-32

4. The Childhood of Anxiety

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 33-54

5. Bombs and Roses: the Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green’s Caught

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 55-74

6. Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore and D.W. Winnicott

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 75-91

7. The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and Rebecca West

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 92-114

8. Hearing Them Speak: Voices in Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald

   • Lyndsey Stonebridge

   Pages 115-134

9. Back Matter

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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.

• culture
• Rebecca West
• time
• British and Irish Literature

• University of East Anglia, UK

  Lyndsey Stonebridge

LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her publications include The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism, Reading Melanie Klein (edited with John Phillips), and British Fiction After Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century (edited with Marina Mackay).

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