Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Scholarly, eloquent and humane, this book illuminates Antonia White’s experiences of extreme mental illness and her struggles to write, at times even to live. By placing White’s own words and unflinching self-analysis at the centre, Moran has given us an illuminating perspective on bi-polarity and creativity and on White’s own tragic and heroic life.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Beast in White’s Jungle: Manic-Depressive IllnessChapter 2: ‘I am a schizophrene’: Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White’s Stories of SelfChapter 3: Masterplots: Psychoanalysis and CatholicismChapter 4: An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictional Stories of SelfEpilogue: Composing a Self

Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Scholarly, eloquent and humane, this book illuminates Antonia White’s experiences of extreme mental illness and her struggles to write, at times even to live. By placing White’s own words and unflinching self-analysis at the centre, Moran has given us an illuminating perspective on bi-polarity and creativity and on White’s own tragic and heroic life.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Beast in White’s Jungle: Manic-Depressive IllnessChapter 2: ‘I am a schizophrene’: Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White’s Stories of SelfChapter 3: Masterplots: Psychoanalysis and CatholicismChapter 4: An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictional Stories of SelfEpilogue: Composing a Self

Patricia Moran is Reader in English and Head of Department at City, University of London. Prior to joining City she held appointments at the University of Limerick and the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on women modernists, including Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Virginia Woolf.

Scholarly, eloquent and humane, this book illuminates Antonia White’s experiences of extreme mental illness and her struggles to write, at times even to live. By placing White’s own words and unflinching self-analysis at the centre, Moran has given us an illuminating perspective on bi-polarity and creativity and on White’s own tragic and heroic life.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Beast in White’s Jungle: Manic-Depressive IllnessChapter 2: ‘I am a schizophrene’: Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White’s Stories of SelfChapter 3: Masterplots: Psychoanalysis and CatholicismChapter 4: An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictional Stories of SelfEpilogue: Composing a Self