The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

by Sarah Henstra

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349366935
• ISBN13: 9781349366934
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"