Beschreibung:
Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory
1. Introduction2. Freud's Melancholic Subject3. Primitivism and Meaning in Heart of Darkness4. Desire, Loss and Storytelling in The Good Soldier5. From Melancholia to Wish-Fulfilment: The Inheritors and Romance6. Conclusion: Modernist Melancholia and Its AfterlifeBibliographyIndex