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Author:

Jones, Amanda Jane, author.

Title:

Bringing up war babies : the wartime child in women's writing and psychoanalysis at mid-century / by Amanda Jane Jones.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
Psychoanalysis and literature--Great Britain.
Children in literature.
War in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Parenthood in literature.

Notes:

Numbering for series varies. It is listed as 13 on the series title page and 51 on C.I.P. page. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Adventures and analysis: anxiety, danger and psychoanalysis in three 1940s children's adventure novels -- Containment and mothering -- Social reform, welfare and the child at mid-century -- Evacuation and enuresis: the chameleon child -- Literary mothers -- Postwar parenting and ambivalence -- Conclusion.

Series:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 13

ISBN:

1138500763
9781138500761

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1029787663

LCCN:

2018007723

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)