Modernism and Nostalgia

Introduction: Past 'Perfect' and Present 'Tense': The Abuses and Uses of Modernist Nostalgia; Tammy Clewell PART I: BODIES 1. Modernism and the Referendum on Nostalgia in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier ; Bernard Schweizer 2. Nostalgia, Trauma, and the Aftermath of War: Siegfried Sassoon and W.H.R. Rivers; Robert Hemmings 3. You Can't Go Home Again: Ambivalent Nostalgia in T.S. Eliot's Poetry; Gabrielle McIntire 4. Matricide and the End of Nostalgia in Elizabeth Bowen; Maren Linett PART II: LOCATIONS 5. 'Must England's beauty perish?': The Country House, Preservation, and Nostalgia in Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians and Virginia Woolf's Orlando ; Sarah Edwards 6. Modernist Urban Nostalgia and British Metropolitan Writing, 1908-1934; Barry J. Faulk 7. Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and Imperialist Nostalgia; Carey Snyder 8. 'There'll be no more fishing this side the grave': Radical Nostalgia in George Orwell's Coming Up for Air ; Patricia Rae 9. Dissolving Landscapes: W.H. Auden's Protean Nostalgia; Eve Sorum PART III: AESTHETICS 10. Rupert Brooke's Ambivalent Mourning, Erza Pound's Anticipatory Nostalgia; Meredith Martin 11. The Beloved Republic: Nostalgia and the Political Aesthetic of E.M. Forster; John J. Su 12. Nostalgia, Mourning, and Désistance in James Joyce's Ulysses ; Christy L. Burns 13. Modernist Nostalgia/Nostalgia for Modernism: Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh; Marina MacKay Afterword: Nostalgia and Modernist Anxiety; Elizabeth Outka