Modernist Melancholia [electronic resource] : Freud, Conrad and Ford /
Enderwitz, Anne.author.
Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory.
Freud's melancholic subject -- Primitivism and meaning in Heart of darkness -- Desire, loss and storytelling in The good soldier -- From melancholia to wish-fulfilment: the inheritors and romance -- Conclusion: Modernist melancholia and its afterlife.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.