Affective mapping

"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."--Jacket

1899-1951 · 19th century · 20th century · American literature · Andreĭ Platonovich · History and criticism · Melancholy · Melancholy in literature · Modernism (Literature · Social aspects · 1843-1916 · 1868-1963 · Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) · Du Bois, W. E. B · Du bois, w. e. b. (william edward burghardt) · henry James (1843-1916) · James, Henry · Modernism (Literature) · Platonov, Andreĭ Platonovich · Social aspects of Melancholy · W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)