Title
Disruption and disappointment: relationships of children and nostalgia in British interwar fiction
Date of Degree
2011
Document Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Department
English
First Advisor
Linda Bolton
Abstract
Children in modernist literature have been largely ignored in critical study; an odd oversight, since children in Victorian and contemporary literature have been sources of rich material for literary critics. In novels published from 1930 until 1934, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Evelyn Waugh address the relationships between children/childhood and nostalgia in The Apes of God (Lewis), The Waves (Woolf), and A Handful of Dust (Waugh). Their complicated and often conflicting depictions of childhood and desire for the past reveal children's overlooked importance in British modernism, as well as a lack of singularity in the manifestations of children and nostalgia that is crucial to contemporary understandings of both terms.
Pages
ii, 71
Bibliography
69-71
Copyright
Copyright 2011 Elspeth Anne Taylor
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Elspeth Anne. "Disruption and disappointment: relationships of children and nostalgia in British interwar fiction." master's thesis, University of Iowa, 2011.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1090.