A “pre-traumatic stress syndrome”: trauma and war in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and The Heat of the Day
Abstract As a modernist writer writing through the two World Wars and witnessing the decline of British imperial power through the decay of her own class, the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, most of Elizabeth Bowen’s (1899–1973) writing is that of trauma. Many critics have suggested that modernist writing p...
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Springer Nature
2024-02-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02613-5 |