Valentine Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1936-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

Two developments during the modernist period - the consolidation of psychiatry as a medical speciality and the emergence of psychoanalysis - affected the representation of madness in literature. They also influenced the ways psychic distress was experienced, narrated, and understood. Literature and criticism in turn affected the formation of the modern psychological self. Presenting detailed readings of both canonical and non-canonical modernists like Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman, this book argues that modernist madness can be understood as experience, clinical discourse and cultural representation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valentine, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Modernism Psychiatry Madness Virginia Woolf Hayford Hall Beyond the Glass and The Shutter of Snow Conclusion Notes

Über Autor(innen)

KYLIE VALENTINE completed a PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney