Synopses & Reviews
Sarah Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.D., and Zelda Fitzgerald analyses the struggle between the need to speak about one's trauma and the equally powerful impulse to keep silent. Representations of traumatized men differ noticeably from those of women, revealing social restrictions on both groups, offering an opportunity to explore the conditions under which characters both suffered trauma and retold it. Furthering the debate between critics who read female madness as a resistance to patriarchy and those who read it as a site of further powerlessness, this examination presents a new category: that of the male representation of female insanity.
Synopsis
In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and H.D. represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions.
Synopsis
Sarah Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.D., and Zelda Fitzgerald analyses the struggle between the need to speak about one's trauma and the equally powerful impulse to keep silent. Representations of traumatized men differ noticeably from those of women, revealing social restrictions on both groups, offering an opportunity to explore the conditions under which characters both suffered trauma and retold it. Furthering the debate between critics who read female madness as a resistance to patriarchy and those who read it as a site of further powerlessness, this examination presents a new category: that of the male representation of female insanity.
Synopsis
In Readings of Trauma, Madness, and the Body, Sarah Wood Anderson explores how Modernist fiction narratives by Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.D., and Zelda Fitzgerald represent trauma, specifically addressing the conflict between speaking about and repressing traumatic memories, while also considering how authors' understandings of gender influence their depictions. Further, this book considers creativity, sexuality, and the body as sites of conflict in representations of madness.
About the Author
Sarah Wood Anderson is an associate lecturer of English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Table of Contents
Part ITrauma TheoryReadings of Resistance in Hemingway's Trauma FictionDomestic Trauma in H.D.'s HERmionePart IIMadness in Modern LiteratureReadings of Gender and Madness in Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees and The Garden of EdenInfidelity and Madness in Fitzgerald's Tender is the NightProduction of the Body and Omission of Madness in Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the WaltzCreating a Language of Rebellion: Madness in H.D.'s HERmioneConclusion