Bringing Up War-Babies

Name: Bringing Up War-Babies
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Bringing Up War-BabiesThe Wartime Child in Womens Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century\nAuthor(s): Amanda Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367666460, 978-0367666460\nSynopsis\nThe figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material biographical, literary and historical to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between womens writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the Second World War and the decades before and after. This volume includes examples of childrens adventure fiction, as well as works written for adult audiences and important and previously unrecognized similarities are noted.\n\nThe war was a disruptive influence in the lives of all who lived through it. Although active self-censorship is observed in the behaviour and attitudes of adults at this time, this book demonstrates how fictional childr.