The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
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The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

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The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
9780230297357
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: Literature Beyond Consolation
  5. 1 Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations
  6. 2 The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
  7. 3 Mourning the Future: Nuclear War, Prophecy, and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
  8. 4 Embodied Grief: The Elegiac Tradition and Jeanette Winterson’sWritten on the Body
  9. Conclusion: Literature of Hope: Ethical Mourning
  10. Notes
  11. Works Cited
  12. Index