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May Sinclair : re-thinking bodies and minds /
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 paradi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: May Sinclair's interdisciplinarity / 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
- 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 Harriet Frean / Charlotte Beyer
- 9. Why British society had to 'get a young virgin sacrificed': sacrifical 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.