Issues of Shame and Guilt in the Modern Novel: Conrad, Ford, Greene, Kafka, Camus, Wilde, Proust, and Mann - Tapa dura

"... exposes the ways in which traditional moral judgment has myopically failed to consider innate human impulses in its censure of purported social indiscretion.... underscores the pressures on the modern individual to distinguish between those directives that engender empathy and those internalized stigmas that incite unwarranted self-recrimination." - Prof. Adrian S. Wisnicki University of London "The innovative scholarship which lies at the heart of this work makes Tenenbaum an original critic in the field of 21st century literary interpretation." - Prof. Suzette Henke University of Louisville"

This study addresses the changes in literary depictions of remorse fostered by modernist literature's response to normative ethical standards. Certain twentieth-century authors believed that the High Modern Period demanded a reconsideration of how individuals may hope to achieve the same social responsibility dictated by traditional values in light of a greater awareness of fundamental human impulses.