May Sinclair : : Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds / / Rebecca Bowler, Claire Drewery.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Bowler, Rebecca,; Drewery, Claire,
• MitwirkendeR: Beyer, Charlotte,; Bont, Leslie de,; Bowler, Rebecca,; Drewery, Claire,; Liggins, Emma,; Mullholland, Terri,; Pickrem, Faye,; Raitt, Suzanne,; Schyllert, Sanna Melin,; Thornton, Elise,; Truran, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: May Sinclair's Interdisciplinarity -- Part I: The Abstract Intellect -- Chapter 1 'Dying to Live': Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair -- Chapter 2 Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: A Life -- Chapter 3 Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair's Novels -- Chapter 4 Feminism, Freedom and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair -- Chapter 5 Architecture, Environment and 'Scenic Effect' in May Sinclair's The Divine Fire -- Part II: Abject Bodies -- Chapter 6 Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair -- Chapter 7 May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians -- Chapter 8 Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair's Life and Death of Harriett Frean -- Chapter 9 Why British Society Had to 'Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed': Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven -- Chapter 10 'Odd How the War Changes Us': May Sinclair and Women's War Work -- Chapter 11 Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told by Simpson -- Notes on Contributors -- Index