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Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934
Andrew Smith
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War OneExplores how the Gothic shaped, and controlled, cultural anxieties about the warProvides a unique critical revision of the figure of the ghost across a wide range of literature from the periodDraws on the Imperial War Museum s archives (including accounts of the war by less-well-known figures such as Jack Martin and Ronald Skirth)Critically complicates the view of the Gothic as articulating, rather than containing, traumaThis book examines how the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published between 1914 1934, both marks the presence of trauma and attempts to make sense of it. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell-shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre-like.The author argues that literary and non-literary texts repeatedly deploy a form of the uncanny, familiar from a Gothic tradition, as a way of reflecting upon grief. In support of this claim, he draws on fiction by well-known authors such as M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Dennis Wheatley, alongside largely forgotten contributions to The Strand and other periodical publications such as The Occult Review.
