Melancholic modernity and contemporary grief: The novels of Graham Swift

Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 63-79

  Wheeler, Wendy ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (20)

1. Raym ond Williams's charting of these anxieties in Culture and Society (London: Chatto and Windus, 1958)
2. Peter Sacks, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats (London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985)
3. 'What is Enlightenm ent', in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986)
4. Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, trans. J Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1964)
5. Jay Bernstein, The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992)
6. Sigmund Freud, 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle', Pelican Freud Library, vol. 11 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984)
7. Sigmund Freud, 'M ourning and Melancholia', Pelican Freud Library, vol. 11
8. Albrecht Wellmer, The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics, and Postmodernism, trans. D. Midgely (Cambridge, Mass.: M IT Press, 1991)
9. Gerald Edelman, Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the M ind (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992)
10. Gillian Rose, Love's Work (London: Chatto and Windus, 1995)
11. Graham Swift, The Sweet Shop Owner (London: Penguin, 1983)
12. Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (London: Routledge, 1991)
13. Graham Swift, Waterland (London: Picador, 1984)
14. Graham Swift, Ever After (London: Picador, 1992)
15. 'After Grief? What Kinds of Inhuman Selves', New Formations 25 (Summer 1995)
16. Sacks, The English Elegy, p. 17
17. Graham Swift, Last Orders (London: Picador, 1996)
18. Sacks, The English Elegy, p. 301
19. Gillian Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law: Philosophy and Representation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 22
20. Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law, p. 25