{"product_id":"9781442695511","title":"Be a Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels","description":"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? \u003cem\u003eBe a Good Soldier\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry — both as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eA phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud, Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and meaning. \u003cem\u003eBe a Good Soldier \u003c\/em\u003eestablishes a pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries into modernist childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155106709744,"sku":"9781442695511","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442695511_p0.jpg?v=1763812099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442695511","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}