Modernist Melancholia: Freud, Conrad and Ford

Enderwitz, Anne

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

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-08-11

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137444318

DOI: 10.1057/9781137444325

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 229