Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Melancholize 1
4. Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling 11
5. 1. Modernism and Melancholia 28
6. 2. Affective Mapping 76
7. 3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw 85
8. 4 “What a Mourning”: Propaganda and Loss in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk 105
9. 5. Andrei Platonov’s Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur 158
10. Notes 193
11. Acknowledgments 249
12. Index 255