The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

1. Introduction: Literature Beyond Consolation
Sarah Henstra

2. Melancholia, Group Psychology, Irony: Psychoanalytic Foundations
Sarah Henstra

3. The End of Empire: Grieving, Englishness, and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier
Sarah Henstra

4. Mourning the Future: Nuclear War, Prophecy, and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
Sarah Henstra

5. Embodied Grief: The Elegiac Tradition and Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body
Sarah Henstra

6. Conclusion: Literature of Hope: Ethical Mourning
Sarah Henstra

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Cognitive Psychology, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory