The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction (Electronic book text)


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.

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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.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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United States

Release date

2009

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Electronic book text

Pages

193

ISBN-13

978-1-283-64660-4

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9781283646604

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1-283-64660-9



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