May Sinclair : : Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds /

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

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 e...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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