Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism

by Clewell, Tammy

• ISBN13: 9780230231948
• ISBN10: 0230231942
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism#xA0;traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.

Author Biography

TAMMY CLEWELL is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, USA. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Literature/Film Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Rethinking Loss; Remapping the Novel	p. 1
Inceptions
Woolf and the Great War	p. 25
Female grief becomes feminist grievance in Jacob's Room	p. 27
Mourning art in To the Lighthouse	p. 39
Economies of Loss in Faulkner's Fiction	p. 56
Bereavement and commodity culture in As I Lay Dying	p. 58
Historicizing trauma, traumatizing history, and Requiem for a Nun	p. 74
Legacies
Waugh's Nostalgia Revisited	p. 93
Gothic ruins and English remains in A Handful of Dust	p. 96
Consolation and heritage in Brideshead Revisited	p. 112
The Sexual Politics of Mourning	p. 129
Grief, the closet, and Donoghue's Hood	p. 131
Desire and the lost object in Winterson's Written on the Body	p. 145
Notes	p. 158
Index	p. 181
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