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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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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.
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Book Title: The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
Authors: Sarah Henstra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297357
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Sarah Henstra 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57714-5Published: 12 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36693-4Published: 12 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29735-7Published: 12 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 182
Topics: Fiction, Cognitive Psychology, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory