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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The University of Virginia Press
just published my book, <i>Character and Mourning: Woolf, Faulkner, and the
Novel Elegy of the First World War</i>.  This email is, first and
foremost, a thank you to all who have heard pieces of this project and who have
written scholarly work that informs it.  <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the book, I lean hard on <i>The Waves, Jacob’s Room</i>, and <i>Mrs. Dalloway, </i>each of which I pair with
a novel by Faulkner.<span>  </span>Together, the
novelists develop what I consider a novel elegy in response to the First World
War, one that fights for space alongside the war poets and negotiates a
new relationship between combatants and civilians that is crucial once the war
ends.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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might find the book useful and who would like to take advantage of the
publisher discount.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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Kay Penner, Ph.D. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the First World War</span></i></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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