Death, Men, and Modernism: Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf

Death, Men and Modernismargues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.