The Writing of Anxiety - 9781349284566

The Writing of AnxietyImagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture\nAuthor(s): L. Stonebridge\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9781349284566, 978-1349284566\nSynopsis\nThis 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.