Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

SARAH HENSTRA is Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She has previously published in such journals as Papers in Language and Literature, Studies in the Novel, Textual Practice, and Twentieth Century Literature.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Literature Beyond Consolation  Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier Mourning the Future: The Nuclear Threat, Prophecy, and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook Embodied Grief: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body and the Elegiac Tradition Conclusion: A Literature of Hope: Ethics and Mourning Notes Bibliography Index