Modernism and melancholia -- Affective mapping -- Reading into Henry James : allegories of the will to know in The turn of the screw -- "What a mourning": propaganda and loss in W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black folk -- Andrei Platonov's revolutionary melancholia: friendship and Toska in Chevengur
Summary
"The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing. Instead, Jonathan Flatley argues, embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them. Flatley demonstrates that a seemingly disparate set of modernist writers and thinkers showed how aesthetic activity can give us the means to comprehend and change our relation to loss."--Jacket
