Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Past “Perfect” and Present “Tense”: The Abuses and Uses of Modernist Nostalgia....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Modernism and the Referendum on Nostalgia in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier....Pages 25-35
Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Aftermath of War: Siegfried Sassoon and W. H. R. Rivers....Pages 36-53
You Can’t Go Home Again: Ambivalent Nostalgia in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry....Pages 54-70
Matricide and the End of Nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen....Pages 71-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
“Permanent preservation for the benefit of the nation”: The Country House, Preservation, and Nostalgia in Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando....Pages 93-110
Modernist Urban Nostalgia and British Metropolitan Writing, 1908–1934....Pages 111-130
Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, and Imperialist Nostalgia....Pages 131-148
“There’ll be no more fishing this side the grave”: Radical Nostalgia in George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air....Pages 149-165
Dissolving Landscapes: W. H. Auden’s Protean Nostalgia....Pages 166-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Rupert Brooke’s Ambivalent Mourning, Ezra Pound’s Anticipatory Nostalgia....Pages 183-197
The Beloved Republic: Nostalgia and the Political Aesthetic of E. M. Forster....Pages 198-215
Nostalgia, Mourning, and Désistance in James Joyce’s Ulysses....Pages 216-236
Modernist Nostalgia/Nostalgia for Modernism: Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh....Pages 237-251
Afterword: Nostalgia and Modernist Anxiety....Pages 252-261
Back Matter....Pages 262-273