Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.

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TAMMY CLEWELL is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, USA. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Literature/Film Quarterly.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Loss; Remapping the Novel PART I: INCEPTIONS Woolf and the Great War Economies of Loss in Faulkner's Fiction PART II: LEGACIES Waugh's Nostalgia Revisited The Sexual Politics of Mourning Bibliography Index