• Introduction: Melancholize
• Glossary: Affect, Emotion, Mood (Stimmung), Structure of Feeling
1. Modernism and Melancholia
• a. Modernity and Loss
• b. Melancholia’s History
• c. Freud on Melancholia: Shadow and Precipitate
• d. Transference; or Affects in Psychoanalysis
• e. Walter Benjamin: Melancholy as Method
2. Affective Mapping
3. Reading into Henry James: Allegories of the Will to Know in The Turn of the Screw
4. “What a Mourning”: Propaganda and Loss in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
5. Andrei Platonov’s Revolutionary Melancholia: Friendship and Toska in Chevengur
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Jonathan Flatley is Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University.