May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

ISBN-13: 9781474415750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str.

Rebecca Bowler;Claire Drewery

Opis

May Sinclair was a bestselling author of her day whose versatile literary output, including criticism, philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis and experimental fiction, now frequently falls between the established categories of literary modernism. In terms of her contribution to dominant modernist paradigms she was, until recently, best remembered for recasting the psychological novel as 'stream of consciousness' narrative in a 1918 review of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage.
This book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.

Spis treści

Introduction, Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery; Part I: The Abstract Intellect; 1. ‘Dying to live’: remembering and forgetting May Sinclair, Suzanne Raitt; 2. Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life, Elise Thornton; 3. Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair’s Novels, Leslie de Bont; 4. Feminism, Freedom, and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair, Wendy Truran; 5. Architecture, Environment, and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine Fire, Terri Mullholland; Part II: Abject Bodies; 6. Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety, and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair, Faye Pickrem; 7. May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians, Rebecca Bowler; 8. Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean, Charlotte Beyer; 9. Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:’ Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven, Sanna Melin Schyllert; 10. Odd how the War changes us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War Work, Emma Liggins; 11. Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told By Simpson, Claire Drewery; Bibliography.