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- Title
No Happy Loves: Desire, Nostalgia, and Failure in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.
- Authors
Barkley, Danielle
- Abstract
The article analyzes why fictional portrayals of history include no happy loves by referring the book "Love in the Western World," by Denis de Rougemont and "Gone with the Wind," by Margaret Mitchell. It is stated that "Gone with the Wind" novel succeeds in sustaining the desire of its central character and the text relies on exploring the past in deceit, elision, romanticized idealization and fatalism manner. It is stated that the novel of Mitchell participates in multiple discourses of southern nostalgia circulating around the time of its publication and extending to encompass the period of its wildly successful reception.
- Subjects
LOVE in the Western World (Book); GONE With the Wind (Book : Mitchell); ROUGEMONT, Denis de, 1906-1985; MITCHELL, Margaret, 1900-1949; FATE &; fatalism in literature; DECEPTION in literature; FICTION; ENGLISH elision; LITERARY characters
- Publication
Southern Literary Journal, 2014, Vol 47, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0038-4291
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/slj.2014.0027