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 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. A 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. Be a Good Soldier establishes a pioneering,
nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries
into modernist childhood.
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