Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels

by Jennifer Fraser

In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood.

Jennifer Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442643137
• ISBN13: 9781442643130
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher