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Informationen zum Autor Christy L. Burns, College of William and Mary, USASarah Edwards, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UKBarry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USARobert Hemmings, Nipissing University, CanadaMaren Linett, Purdue University, USAMarina MacKay, University of Durham, UKMeredith Martin, Princeton University, USAGabrielle McIntire, Queen's University, CanadaElizabeth Outka, University of Richmond, UKPatricia Rae, Queen's University in Ontario, CanadaBernard Schweizer, Long Island University, USACarey Snyder, Ohio University, USAEve Sorum, University of Massachusetts, USAJohn J. Su, Marquette University, USA Klappentext 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. To come Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 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 Outka...
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Introduction: 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 Outka
