Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett

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Contents
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of archives and collected works
Introduction: A poet of modern trauma
	On method and approach
	Summary
Chapter 1: Being Frank Prewett
	An enthusiastic Canadian soldier
	Choosing a fighting indigenous identity
Chapter 2: The experience of combat in the First World War
	The body and the mind in war
	The positives of war
	Prewett’s dissociative poem ‘Card Game’
	A sheer time: Being blown up, then buried alive
Chapter 3: ‘Shell-shock’
	‘Shell-shock’ in interdisciplinary context
	Gender and ‘shell-shock’
	The debate over organic versus psychological causes
	Incidence and diagnosis
	Class and ‘shell-shock’
	Experiencing ‘shell-shock’
	Treatment options
Chapter 4: Primitivism, ‘Toronto’ Prewett and Dr William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922)
	Reconsidering the best-known ‘shell-shock’ doctor of the First World War
	Rivers’s empathetic reciprocity in clinical context
	Rivers and primitivism
	Containing the primitive: The ‘shell-shock’ doctors and the 1898 expedition to the Torres Straits
	‘A human experiment in nerve division’
Chapter 5: Adopting the ‘Toronto’ personality at Lennel and meeting Siegfried Sassoon
	Dressing up and pretending in the early twentieth century
	‘Toronto’ Prewett, Long Lance and Grey Owl
	Sassoon smitten by ‘Toronto’ Prewett
	Sassoon: A soldier, acting on behalf of soldiers
Chapter 6: Prewett’s friendship with Robert Graves and trauma poetry
	Graves: Conjuror in myth and jests ‘too deep for laughter’
	Prewett’s communion with the dead and trauma poetry
Chapter 7: An ‘Iroquois’ at Oxford and Garsington
	Oxford University
	The theatre of Garsington
	Ottoline and Philip Morrell
	Understanding Ottoline via the law of inverse proportion
	Beauty, philosophy, sex and life in the ‘specious present’
	‘Toronto’ Prewett’s popularity
	A ‘blue and gold existence’: Ambivalence and Ottoline
Chapter 8: Repatriated to a suburbanizing Canada: November 1919–January 1921
	Return amid pandemic to a consumerist Canada bereft of indigenous values
	Prewett’s published and unpublished poetry on trauma, romance, sex and nature
Chapter 9: ‘Mad in the peace’: Farming and trauma poetry
	Using Edward Thomas to understand Prewett’s ambivalent relationship with the natural world
	Chickens and cheese
	Tubney farm, marriage and a daughter
Chapter 10: Prewett responds to changes in the land
	The Chazzey Tragedy
	Publishing on country life, marriage and a son
	Endings: Surviving but not escaping war
Conclusion: Protest memory and soft primitivism
	Primitivism and intellectual change
	Primitivism and The Rite of Spring
	Protest memory and trauma poetry
	Yeats and the exclusion of protest memory
	Soft primitivism
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index