1st Edition

Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature

By Alberto Castelli Copyright 2026
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist studies: the persistent yet transformed presence of love. While academia has exhaustively examined modernism through lenses of nihilism, disillusionment, and existential silence, the romantic impulse threading through these seemingly barren landscapes remains largely unexamined. How... Read more

Chapter 1. Prisoners of Life: Dostoevsky’s Hero and Anti-hero

Chapter 2. The Waste Land of Love

Chapter 3. A Home by The Sea: The Impression of Framing Life

Chapter 4. Mourning and Melancholia in A Farewell to Arm

Chapter 5. Unfinished Selves: A Journey Through the Self

Chapter 6. The Dead and The Living

Biography

Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China.