The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction
By: Sarah Henstra.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230577145
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Grief in literature; Grief -- Political aspects; Memorials in literature; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Political and social views; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Literature Beyond Consolation Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Fords The Good SoldierMourning the Future: The Nuclear Threat, Prophecy, and Doris Lessings The Golden NotebookEmbodied Grief: Jeanette Wintersons Written on the Body and the Elegiac TraditionConclusion: A Literature of Hope: Ethics and Mourning Notes Bibliography Index.