Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Space Between the Wars 18
6. 2. Rivers, Myers and the Culture of War Neuroses 28
7. 3. Witnessing and Survival: The Challenge of ‘Autognosis’ in the Interwar Years 54
8. 4. Wartime Revisited: Ghosts and Spirits in Sassoon’s Patriotic Verse of the Second World War 82
9. 5. Look Back to ‘Gladness’: Nostalgia and Sassoon’s Personal Poems, 1940–5 97
10. 6. Narcissism and Autognosis: Sassoon, 1936–42 112
11. 7. Liminal Moments, Uncanny Spaces: Sassoon’s Autobiography and the Modern Subject 127
12. Conclusion 147
13. Index 157