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OverviewThis book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. ClewellPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2013 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781349459841ISBN 10: 1349459844 Pages: 273 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Past 'Perfect' and Present 'Tense': The Abuses and Uses of Modernist Nostalgia; Tammy Clewell PART I: BODIES 1. Modernism and the Referendum on Nostalgia in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier ; Bernard Schweizer 2. Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Aftermath of War: Siegfried Sassoon and W.H.R. Rivers; Robert Hemmings 3. You Can't Go Home Again: Ambivalent Nostalgia in T.S. Eliot's Poetry; Gabrielle McIntire 4. Matricide and the End of Nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen; Maren Linett PART II: LOCATIONS 5. 'Must England's beauty perish?': The Country House, Preservation, and Nostalgia in Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians and Virginia Woolf's Orlando ; Sarah Edwards 6. Modernist Urban Nostalgia and British Metropolitan Writing, 1908-1934; Barry J. Faulk 7. Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and Imperialist Nostalgia; Carey Snyder 8. 'There'll be no more fishing this side the grave': Radical Nostalgia in George Orwell's Coming Up for Air ; Patricia Rae 9. Dissolving Landscapes: W.H. Auden's Protean Nostalgia; Eve Sorum PART III: AESTHETICS 10. Rupert Brooke's Ambivalent Mourning, Erza Pound's Anticipatory Nostalgia; Meredith Martin 11. The Beloved Republic: Nostalgia and the Political Aesthetic of E.M. Forster; John J. Su 12. Nostalgia, Mourning, and Désistance in James Joyce's Ulysses ; Christy L. Burns 13. Modernist Nostalgia/Nostalgia for Modernism: Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh; Marina MacKay Afterword: Nostalgia and Modernist Anxiety; Elizabeth OutkaReviewsTo come Author InformationChristy L. Burns, College of William and Mary, USA Sarah Edwards, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USA Robert Hemmings, Nipissing University, Canada Maren Linett, Purdue University, USA Marina MacKay, University of Durham, UK Meredith Martin, Princeton University, USA Gabrielle McIntire, Queen's University, Canada Elizabeth Outka, University of Richmond, UK Patricia Rae, Queen's University in Ontario, Canada Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University, USA Carey Snyder, Ohio University, USA Eve Sorum, University of Massachusetts, USA John J. Su, Marquette University, USA Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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