{"product_id":"affective-mapping-jonathan-flatley-9780674030787","title":"Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe texts at the center of Flatley's analysis--Henry James's \u003ci\u003eTurn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e, W. E. B. Du Bois's \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, and Andrei Platonov's \u003ci\u003eChevengur\u003c\/i\u003e--share with Freud an interest in understanding the depressing effects of difficult losses and with Walter Benjamin the hope that loss itself could become a means of connection and the basis for social transformation. For Du Bois, Platonov, and James, the focus on melancholy illuminates both the historical origins of subjective emotional life and a heretofore unarticulated community of melancholics. The affective maps they produce make possible the conversion of a depressive melancholia into a way to be interested in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Flatley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674030788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674030787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Jonathan Flatley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946900586751,"sku":"9780674030787","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0a713c9f-b757-445c-a9fd-68cf13bbb99d.jpg?v=1681515669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/affective-mapping-jonathan-flatley-9780674030787","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}