Character and Mourning: Woolf, Faulkner & the Novel Elegy of the First World War

In response to the trauma of World War 1, British and American authors wrote about grief. The author of this book chooses loss inspired novels by Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner to articulate this. Penner moves beyond biographical and stylistic differences to recognise Woolf and Faulkner's shared role in reshaping elegaic literature.