Introduction.- 1. Gender, melancholy, and the whiteness of impersonal form in The Great Gatsby.- 2. Redeeming violence in The Sun Also Rises: phallic embodiment, primitive ritual, fetishistic melancholia.- 3. Versions of traumatic melancholia: the burden of white man's history in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!.- 4. The Professor's House: primitivist melancholy and the gender of Utopian forms
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism