May Sinclair

Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair’s writingMay 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.Key FeaturesBrings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchersConsiders Sinclair’s contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identityExplores a wide range of Sinclair’s work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-02
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:523 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474415750

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Mer om författaren

Rebecca Bowler is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature at Keele University. Before taking up the Lectureship at Keele in September 2016 Dr Bowler was Research Associate on the Dorothy Richardson Scholarly Editions Project, editing the collected letters and complete fiction of the modernist writer Dorothy Richardson for publication with OUP. Her monograph, Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair was published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. She is co-founder of the May Sinclair Society and is co-editor, with Claire Drewery, of May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (EUP, 2016). Claire Drewery is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Modernist Short Fiction by Women: the Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf (Ashgate 2011), co-founder of the May Sinclair Society, and co-editor, with Rebecca Bowler, of May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (EUP, 2016).

Recensioner i media

These refreshing essays remind us of what we have lost in forgetting May Sinclair and do much to restore her to her rightful place as a pioneering writer and intellectual. Bowler and Drewery deserve praise for reviving Sinclair’s reputation, a revival that is likely to last far longer than her shameful neglect.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction　 Part IThe Abstract IntellectChapter 1‘Dying to live’: remembering and forgetting May SinclairSuzanne Raitt Chapter 2Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A LifeElise Thornton　Chapter 3Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair’s NovelsLeslie de Bont Chapter 4Feminism, Freedom, and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May SinclairWendy Truran　Chapter 5Architecture, Environment, and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine FireTerri Mullholland　Part IIAbject BodiesChapter 6Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety, and the Erotics of Renunciation in May SinclairFaye Pickrem Chapter 7May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby VictoriansRebecca Bowler　Chapter 8Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett FreanCharlotte Beyer　Chapter 9Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:’ Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of HeavenSanna Melin Schyllert　Chapter 10Odd how the War changes us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War WorkEmma Liggins　Chapter 11Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told By SimpsonClaire Drewery