Nature Trauma: Ecology and the Returning Soldier in First World War English and Scottish Fiction, 1918-1932.

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Abstract
Nature has been widely represented in literature and culture as healing, redemptive, unspoilt, and restorative. In the aftermath of the First World War, writers grappled with long cultural associations between nature and healing. Having survived a conflict in which relations between people, and the living environment had been catastrophically ruptured, writers asked: could rural and wild places offer meaningful sites of solace and recovery for traumatised soldiers? In Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918), Nan Shepherd's The Weatherhouse (1930) and Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (1932), trauma severs emotional, social, and cultural relationships with the natural world. These interwar literatures offer counter-narratives to simplistic depictions of nature as a healing space and highlight the difficulties of returning to rural environments and 'reconnecting' with known and natural places.
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Authors Walton, Samantha;
Journal The Journal of medical humanities
Year 2019
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10.1007/s10912-019-09591-9
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Ecology trauma warfare ecocriticism interwar fiction

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