Modernism, History and the First World War

Dr Trudi Tate is an Official Fellow Claire Hall Cambridge, She is Assistant Senior Tutor and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English. She works on English literature from the 1850s to the present day, with a particular interest in how literature attempts to bear witness to events of its time, particularly in times of war. She has published on the literature of the First World War, the Crimean War and the American-Vietnamese War. Dr Tate has an interest in reading psychoanalysis historically and has worked on Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, D W Winnicott, and John Bowlby. A recent essay explores how babies were perceived in Britain at the time of the Armistice of 1918, looking at the influence of Truby King, alongside writings by Woolf, Bowen and Mansfield.