Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism
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 cruc
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Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism Tammy Clewell
© Tammy Clewell 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-23194-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her rights to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
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Contents Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Rethinking Loss; Remapping the Novel
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Part I Inceptions 1 Woolf and the Great War Female grief becomes feminist grievance in Jacob’s Room Mourning art in To the Lighthouse
25 27 39
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56 58
Economies of Loss in Faulkner’s Fiction Bereavement and commodity culture in As I Lay Dying Historicizing trauma, traumatizing history, and Requiem for a Nun
Part II
74
Legacies
3
Waugh’s Nostalgia Revisited Gothic ruins and English remains in A Handful of Dust Consolation and heritage in Brideshead Revisited
93 96 112
4
The Sexual Politics of Mourning Grief, the closet, and Donoghue’s Hood Desire and the lost object in Winterson’s Written on the Body
129 131 145
Notes
158
Index
181
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Acknowledgments I could not have written this book without the many teachers, colleagues, and friends who provided assistance and encouragement along the way. First, I wish to thank R. M. Berry for his guidance of my dissertation, which was the basis for Mourning, Modernis
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