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The Writing of Anxiety

Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture
By:L. Stonebridge
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230013278
eText ISBN:9780230592025
Edition:0
Copyright:2007
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.