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The Writing of Anxiety Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture Lyndsey Stonebridge Language,Discourse,Society GeneralEditors:StephenHeath,ColinMacCabeandDeniseRiley Selectedpublishedtitles: LyndseyStonebridge THEWRITINGOFANXIETY ImaginingWartimeinMid-CenturyBritishCulture AshleyTauchert ROMANCINGJANEAUSTEN Narrative,RealismandthePossibilityofaHappyEnding ReenaDube SATYAJITRAY’STHECHESSPLAYERSANDPOSTCOLONIALTHEORY Culture,LabourandtheValueofAlterity JohnAnthonyTercier THECONTEMPORARYDEATHBED TheUltimateRush EricaSheenandLornaHutson LITERATURE,POLITICSANDLAWINRENAISSANCEENGLAND Jean-JacquesLecercleandDeniseRiley THEFORCEOFLANGUAGE GeoffGilbert BEFOREMODERNISMWAS ModernHistoryandtheConstituencyofWriting StephenHeath,ColinMacCabeandDeniseRiley(editors) THELANGUAGE,DISCOURSE,SOCIETYREADER MichaelO’Pray FILM,FORMANDPHANTASY AdrianStokesandFilmAesthetics JamesA.Snead,editedbyKaraKeeling,ColinMacCabeandCornelWest RACISTTRACESANDOTHERWRITINGS EuropeanPedigrees/AfricanContagions PatriziaLombardo CITIES,WORDSANDIMAGES ColinMacCabe JAMESJOYCEANDTHEREVOLUTIONOFTHEWORD Secondedition MoustaphaSafouan SPEECHORDEATH? LanguageasSocialOrder:aPsychoanalyticStudy June2007 MAC/TWA Page-i 0230_013279_01_preiv Jean-JacquesLecercle DELEUZEANDLANGUAGE PiersGray,editedbyColinMacCabeandVictoriaRothschild STALINONLINGUISTICSANDOTHERESSAYS GeoffreyWard STATUTESOFLIBERTY TheNewYorkSchoolofPoets MoustaphaSafouan JACQUESLACANANDTHEQUESTIONOFPSYCHOANALYTICTRAINING (TranslatedandintroducedbyJacquelineRose) StanleyShostak THEDEATHOFLIFE TheLegacyofMolecularBiology ElizabethCowie REPRESENTINGTHEWOMAN CinemaandPsychoanalysis RaymondTallis NOTSAUSSURE ACritiqueofPost-SaussureanLiteraryTheory LauraMulvey VISUALANDOTHERPLEASURES IanHunter CULTUREANDGOVERNMENT TheEmergenceofLiteraryEducation DeniseRiley ‘AMITHATNAME?’ FeminismandtheCategoryof‘Women’inHistory MaryAnnDoane THEDESIRETODESIRE TheWoman’sFilmofthe1940s Language,Discourse,Society SeriesStandingOrderISBN0–333–71482–2 (outsideNorthAmericaonly) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standingorder.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetous attheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandthe ISBNquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England June2007 MAC/TWA Page-ii 0230_013279_01_preiv The Writing of Anxiety Imagining Wartime in Mid-Century British Culture Lyndsey Stonebridge UniversityofEastAnglia June2007 MAC/TWA Page-iii 0230_013279_01_preiv ©LyndseyStonebridge2007 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorisedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2007by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. Macmillan(cid:1)isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean Unionandothercountries. ISBN-13:978(cid:2)0(cid:2)230(cid:2)01327(cid:2)8hardback ISBN-10:0(cid:2)230(cid:2)01327(cid:2)9hardback Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby AntonyRoweLtd,ChippenhamandEastbourne June2007 MAC/TWA Page-iv 0230_013279_01_preiv For Shaun, Joe and Mizzy, and in memory of Max June2007 MAC/TWA Page-v 0230_013279_02_previ This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction:‘DreadingForward’:theWritingofAnxietyat Mid-Century 1 1 AnxietyataTimeofCrisis:PsychoanalysisandWartime 14 2 TheChildhoodofAnxiety 33 3 BombsandRoses:theWritingofAnxietyinHenryGreen’s Caught 55 4 Bombs,BirthandTrauma:HenryMooreandD.W.Winnicott 75 5 The Writing of Post-War Guilt: Rose Macaulay and RebeccaWest 92 6 HearingThemSpeak:VoicesinBion,MurielSparkand PenelopeFitzgerald 115 Notes 135 SelectBibliography 159 Index 168 vii June2007 MAC/TWA Page-vii 0230_013279_03_previi List of Illustrations I.1 DameLauraKnight,TheNurembergTrial1946(oil),the ArtArchive,ImperialWarMuseum(ref.AA333221) 11 1.1 DrawingofMelanieKleinbyRichard,aged10,from MelanieKlein,NarrativeofaChildAnalysis(1961),the MelanieKleinTrust 27 2.1 David Seymour (‘Chim’), Land Distribution Meeting, Estremadura,Spain,1936©DavidSeymour/Magnum Photos 39 2.2 DavidSeymour(‘Chim’),Terezka,aDisturbedChildinan Orphanage,Poland1948©DavidSeymour/MagnumPhotos 42 4.1 Henry Moore, Study for ‘Tube Shelter Perspective: the LiverpoolSt. Extension’, 1940–41(HMF1649),Henry MooreFoundationandBritishMuseum 78 4.2 HenryMoore,September3rd1939,1939(HMF1551), HenryMooreFoundation 81 4.3 HenryMoore,CrowdLookingataTied-UpObject,1942 (HMF2064),HenryMooreFoundation 83 4.4 HenryMoore,GirlReadingtoaWomanHoldingaChild, c.1946(HMF2385),HenryMooreFoundation 90 viii June2007 MAC/TWA Page-viii 0230_013279_04_prex Acknowledgements I first started thinking about the themes of this book at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1997–98. I wish to thank my fellow fellows for their pleasurable intellectual companionship, the then Director of the Society, Dominick LaCapra and Suzanne Stewart Steinberg for their subtle history lessons, and Mary Jacobus whose support for this project has been constant. The book was completed withtheaidofagrantfromtheArtsandHumanitiesResearchCentre. Earlier versions of some chapters have appeared as journal articles. A shorter version of ‘Anxiety at a Time of Crisis’ (Chapter 1) appeared in History Workshop Journal, 45 (Spring 1998); ‘Bombs and Roses: the Writing of Anxiety in Henry Green’s Caught’ (Chapter 3) was publishedinaspecialissueofDiacritics,28(4)(Winter1998)ontrauma and psychoanalysis; ‘Bombs, Birth and Trauma: Henry Moore’s and D.W.Winnicott’sPre-HistoryFigments’(Chapter4)appearedinCultural Critique, 46 (Fall 2000), and ‘Human Voices: Hearing them Speak in Wilfred Bion, Muriel Spark and Penelope Fitzgerald’ (Chapter 6) was published in Textual Practice, 19 (2005). I wish to thank the editors of those publications, particularly Sally Alexander, Karyn Ball and Peter Nicholls for their careful guidance. I am grateful too to the following forkindpermissiontopublishtheimagesinthisbook:theArtArchive andtheImperialWarMuseumforDameLauraKnight,‘TheNuremberg Trial, 1946’, The Melanie Klein Trust for the drawing of Melanie Klein by Richard, aged 10, Magnum Photo Agency for David Seymour (‘Chim’),LandDistributionMeeting,Estremadura,Spain,1936andTerezka, a Disturbed Child in an Orphanage, Poland, 1948, and The Henry Moore Foundation for Henry Moore, Study for ‘Tube Shelter Perspectives: the Liverpool St. Extension’, 1941, September 3rd 1939, Crowd Looking at a Tied-UpObject,1942,andGirlReadingtoaWomanHoldingaChild,1946. I have been fortunate to find myself working alongside others in the (re)emerging field of studies in mid-century British culture and literature. In particular, I have benefited from the conversation and writingofMaudEllmann,JoeKennedy,MarinaMacKay,RodMengham, Ian Patterson and Neil Reeve. At the University of East Anglia, Clive Scott was brilliant in both tracking down photographs and teaching me how to think about them, and Helen Smith and Jennifer Hodgson ix June2007 MAC/TWA Page-ix 0230_013279_04_prex
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