![]() | Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Melancholy in literature; James Henry 1843–1916. Turn of the screw; Du Bois W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868–1963. Soul; 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. |
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