Issues of shame and guilt in the modern novel
Subtitle: Conrad, Ford, Greene, Kafka, Camus, Wilde, Proust, and Mann
By: David Tenenbaum ; with a foreword by Adrian S. Wisnicki.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780773447004
Subjects: Shame in literature; Guilt in literature; Modernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Survivor guilt: Conrad's anti-heroes; title: Keeping up appearances: aristocratic anxiety in the novels of Ford Madox Ford; title: The modern confessional: Catholic guilt in the novels of Graham Greene And François Mauriac; title: Elders, institutions and existential guilt in the fiction of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus; title: Queer imaginings: l'amour d'impossible in Wilde, James, Proust and Mann; title: Afterword: the great escape: the reverence and regret of the American dream.