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The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

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  • © 2009

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  1. Sarah Henstra
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Literature Beyond Consolation

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 1-19

  3. Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 20-39

  4. The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 40-79

  5. Mourning the Future: Nuclear War, Prophecy, and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 80-110

  6. Embodied Grief: The Elegiac Tradition and Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 111-147

  7. Conclusion: Literature of Hope: Ethical Mourning

    • Sarah Henstra
    Pages 148-156

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 157-182
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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.

About the author

SARAH HENSTRA is Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She has previously published in such journals as Papers in Language and Literature, Studies in the Novel, Textual Practice, and Twentieth Century Literature.

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