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Book SynopsisBe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
