Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

• 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; Afterword; Index.

"The work’s strengths are the fascinating analysis of gender intersecting race and the keen scrutiny of narrative strategy. The first chapter reads The Great Gatsby as allegory of the loss of male creativity embodied in lyrical Gatsby, a style of manhood “that cannot but be lost” (15)." -- Beth Widmaier Capo,American Studies, Vol. 52, no. 3

Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

• 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; Afterword; Index.

"The work’s strengths are the fascinating analysis of gender intersecting race and the keen scrutiny of narrative strategy. The first chapter reads The Great Gatsby as allegory of the loss of male creativity embodied in lyrical Gatsby, a style of manhood “that cannot but be lost” (15)." -- Beth Widmaier Capo,American Studies, Vol. 52, no. 3

Greg Forter is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

• 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; Afterword; Index.

"The work’s strengths are the fascinating analysis of gender intersecting race and the keen scrutiny of narrative strategy. The first chapter reads The Great Gatsby as allegory of the loss of male creativity embodied in lyrical Gatsby, a style of manhood “that cannot but be lost” (15)." -- Beth Widmaier Capo,American Studies, Vol. 52, no. 3