Modernism and Nostalgia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Past “Perfect” and Present “Tense”: The Abuses and Uses of Modernist Nostalgia

   1. Introduction: Past “Perfect” and Present “Tense”: The Abuses and Uses of Modernist Nostalgia

      • Tammy Clewell

      Pages 1-22

3. Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Modernism and the Referendum on Nostalgia in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier

      • Bernard Schweizer

      Pages 25-35

   3. Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Aftermath of War: Siegfried Sassoon and W. H. R. Rivers

      • Robert Hemmings

      Pages 36-53

   4. You Can’t Go Home Again: Ambivalent Nostalgia in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry

      • Gabrielle McIntire

      Pages 54-70

   5. Matricide and the End of Nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen

      • Maren Linett

      Pages 71-90

4. Locations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. “Permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation”: The Country House, Preservation, and Nostalgia in Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

      • Sarah Edwards

      Pages 93-110

   3. Modernist Urban Nostalgia and British Metropolitan Writing, 1908–1934

      • Barry J. Faulk

      Pages 111-130

   4. Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, and Imperialist Nostalgia

      • Carey Snyder

      Pages 131-148

   5. “There’ll be no more fishing this side the grave”: Radical Nostalgia in George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air

      • Patricia Rae

      Pages 149-165

   6. Dissolving Landscapes: W. H. Auden’s Protean Nostalgia

      • Eve Sorum

      Pages 166-180

5. Aesthetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Rupert Brooke’s Ambivalent Mourning, Ezra Pound’s Anticipatory Nostalgia

      • Meredith Martin

      Pages 183-197

   3. The Beloved Republic: Nostalgia and the Political Aesthetic of E. M. Forster

      • John J. Su

      Pages 198-215

   4. Nostalgia, Mourning, and Désistance in James Joyce’s Ulysses

      • Christy L. Burns

      Pages 216-236

   5. Modernist Nostalgia/Nostalgia for Modernism: Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh

      • Marina MacKay

      Pages 237-251

   6. Afterword: Nostalgia and Modernist Anxiety

      • Elizabeth Outka

      Pages 252-261

6. Back Matter

   Pages 262-273

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This 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.

• Modernism
• Nostalgia
• Memory
• Twentieth Century
• aesthetics
• David Herbert Lawrence
• poetry
• Rebecca West
• Virginia Woolf

• Kent State University, USA

  Tammy Clewell

Christy 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

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