Loss of the Ideal: James Agee's A Death in the Family
p. 11
Failure as a Loss: John Updike's The Centaur
p. 34
Generational Critiques: Virginia Woolf's The Years and William Faulkner's Sartoris
p. 41
Familial Disintegration: James Joyce's Dubliners and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited"
p. 58
The Loss of Romantic Love: Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
p. 65
Marriage as Cultural Change: Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
p. 85
Marriage as the End of Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and John Updike's Too Far to Go
p. 106
Cultural and Philosophical Elegies
Modernism on Culture and History: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, and Others
p. 129
Bifocal Time: Virginia Woolf's The Years and To the Lighthouse
p. 137
Perspectives on the Self: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays
p. 152
A Coda: Continuity and Innovation
p. 163
Notes
p. 169
Works Cited
p. 181
Index
p. 187
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