Nostalgia and Modernism: Sassoon’s Path[ology] back to the Present
This paper opens up English poet Siegfried Sassoon’s nostalgia by considering it in pathological terms, that is, by seeing it in relation to both Johannes Hofer’s aetiological coinage (nostos, return to one’s native land; algos, pain or distress) and the war neurosis which developed from his experie...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_16615 https://doi.org/10.4000/14iou urn:doi:10.4000/14iou en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/16615 2025-08-27T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/14iou https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Nostalgia and Modernism: Sassoon’s Path[ology] back to the Present Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Hemmings, Robert This paper opens up English poet Siegfried Sassoon’s nostalgia by considering it in pathological terms, that is, by seeing it in relation to both Johannes Hofer’s aetiological coinage (nostos, return to one’s native land; algos, pain or distress) and the war neurosis which developed from his experiences on the Western Front. Focusing on his portrayal of childhood and quasi-epiphanic moments in his autobiographical volumes, The Old Century (1938) and The Weald of Youth (1942), and several poems of this period, I situate his nostalgia in the context of Stephen Spender’s discussion of the nostalgic qualities of both Victorian aesthetics and high modernism, arguing that Sassoon’s accentuated moments of childhood embed his writing in the modernist tradition he strove to escape. |
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This paper opens up English poet Siegfried Sassoon’s nostalgia by considering it in pathological terms, that is, by seeing it in relation to both Johannes Hofer’s aetiological coinage (nostos, return to one’s native land; algos, pain or distress) and the war neurosis which developed from his experiences on the Western Front. Focusing on his portrayal of childhood and quasi-epiphanic moments in his autobiographical volumes, The Old Century (1938) and The Weald of Youth (1942), and several poems of this period, I situate his nostalgia in the context of Stephen Spender’s discussion of the nostalgic qualities of both Victorian aesthetics and high modernism, arguing that Sassoon’s accentuated moments of childhood embed his writing in the modernist tradition he strove to escape. |
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