The counter-memorial impulse in twentieth-century English fiction
By: Sarah Henstra
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780230577145
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: Introduction : literature beyond consolation; title: Melancholia, group psychology, irony : psychoanalytic foundations; title: The end of empire : grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier; title: Mourning the future : nuclear war, prophecy, and Doris Lessing's The golden notebook; title: Embodied grief : the elegiac tradition and Jeannette Winterson's Written on the body; title: Conclusion : literature of hope : ethical mourning.