Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-349) and index.
Contents
"Circle-sailing" : the eternal return of tabooed grief in Melville's Moby-Dick -- "My first lie, and how I got out of it" : deprivation-grief and the making of an American humorist -- "Blessed are they that mourn, for they-- they--" : repressed grief and pathological mourning in Mark Twain's fiction -- Huckleberry Finn's anti-Oedipus complex : father-loss and mother-hunger in the great American novel -- The shaping of Hemingway's art of repressed grief : mother-loss and father-hunger from In our time to Winner take nothing -- "Ether in the brain" : blunting the edges of perception in Hemingway's middle period -- Grief hoarders and "beat-up old bastards" : Hemingway's bittersweet taste of nostalgia.
