The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction /
Henstra, Sarah,1972-
Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
"A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : literature beyond consolation -- Melancholia, group psychology, irony : psychoanalytic foundations -- The end of empire : grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- Mourning the future : nuclear war, prophecy, and Doris Lessing's The golden notebook -- Embodied grief : the elegiac tradition and Jeannette Winterson's Written on the body -- Conclusion : literature of hope : ethical mourning.
"A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of works by Ford, Lessing, and Winterson demonstrate how narrative experimentation in this period responds to socio-historic conditions like post-imperial melancholy, nuclear fear and homophobia"--Provided by publisher.
English fiction
Grief in literature.
Grief
Memorials in literature.
Authors, English
Literature and society