Men in (Shell-)Shock: Masculinity, Trauma, and Psychoanalysis in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier

This paper undertakes to read Rebecca West's first novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918), as a critical exploration of masculine trauma on the one hand and an ambivalent engagement with Freudian psychoanalysis on the other. The novel proves interesting as a site in which two shifting cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Misha Kavka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1998-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/8