Be a Good Soldier

Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels

Jennifer Fraser

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University of Toronto Press
14 November 2011

Sociology: birth; Sociology: family & relationships

In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry

their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and

deconstructed in the period's literature? Be

a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in

modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as

manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.

Jennifer Margaret Fraser provides

sophisticated

close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce,

among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry - both

as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war. A phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud,

Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways

of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and

meaning. Be a Good Soldier establishes a

pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries

into modernist childhood.

By: Jennifer Fraser
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781442643130
ISBN 10: 1442643137
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 14 November 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Introduction Children's Grief: The Return from Exile Chapter One Translating the Foreign Language of Childhood Grief:Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes Chapter Two Childhood Grief as Resident Alien in Jean Rhys' Five Novellas Chapter Three Grieving the Child of the Shell-Shocked Soldier in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier Chapter Four Childhood Grief on the Home-Front: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade’s End Chapter Five Creating a Space for Childhood's Sound Waves: Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House and The Waves Chapter Six The “Laughtears” of the Child Be Longing: James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Conclusion Creating Fictional Space for the Grief of the Child Notes Bibliography

Jennifer Margaret Fraser holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels

'Be a Good Soldier will command excitement and respect for its first-calibre, strikingly original readings of grief and mourning in a truly impressive variety of modernist texts. Jennifer Margaret Fraser's meticulous work of scholarship and criticism crucially stands on its own, blending and cross-considering textual domains with agility and inventiveness. Fraser has generated an exceptionally rich and sensitive repository of vocabulary through which historicist inquiry can now most productively happen.'--Peter Mallios, Department of English, University of Maryland