Introduction: Rethinking loss; remapping the novel --;pt. I. Inceptions --;Woolf and the Great War --;Economies of loss in Faulkner's fiction --;pt. II. Legacies --;Waugh's nostalgia revisited --;The sexual politics of mourning.
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 crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.