Mourning, modernism, postmodernism / Tammy Clewell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clewell, Tammy, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Grief in literature.

Grief--Political aspects.

Grief.

Modernism (Literature).

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

viii, 185 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism 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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Inceptions

1 Woolf and the Great War 25

Female grief becomes feminist grievance in Jacob's Room 27

Mourning art in To the Lighthouse 39

2 Economies of Loss in Faulkner's Fiction 56

Bereavement and commodity culture in As I Lay Dying 58

Historicizing trauma, traumatizing history, and Requiem for a Nun 74

Part II Legacies

3 Waugh's Nostalgia Revisited 93

Gothic ruins and English remains in A Handful of Dust 96

Consolation and heritage in Brideshead Revisited 112

4 The Sexual Politics of Mourning 129

Grief, the closet, and Donoghue's Hood 131

Desire and the lost object in Winterson's Written on the Body 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230231948

0230231942

OCLC:

456729286