War Trauma and English Modernism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 1-23

3. Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 24-43

4. Testimony before Trauma: Eliot’s Poetry up to 1915

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 44-59

5. Testimony as History: The First “Women in Love”

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 60-88

6. Eliot’s War Poetry: “Hysteria” to The Waste Land

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 89-127

7. Working Through: Lawrence in the Twenties

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 128-155

8. Trauma Transfigured: “The Hollow Men” to Little Gidding

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 156-196

9. Conclusion: The Legacy of War upon the Legacy of Modernism

   • Carl Krockel

   Pages 197-211

10. Back Matter

    Pages 212-241

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This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation.

• David Herbert Lawrence
• English literature
• George Eliot
• Modernism
• poetry
• British and Irish Literature

CARL KROCKEL completed a Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia which was later published by Rodopi as The Politics of Influence: D.H. Lawrence and German Culture. He taught at the University of East Anglia, and was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently working on a book on contemporary poetry and global politics.

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