Paranoid modernism : literary experiment, psychosis, and the professionalization of English society / David Trotter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trotter, David, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Professions.

History.

Great Britain.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Knowledge and learning--Psychology.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.

Psychology.

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939--Knowledge and learning--Psychology.

Ford, Ford Madox.

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957--Knowledge and learning--Psychology.

Lewis, Wyndham.

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.

Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English.

Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction, English.

Professions--England--History--20th century.

Psychoses in literature.

Paranoia in literature.

England.

Physical Description:

358 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

What provoked the fierce and systematic "will to experiment" that was Modernism? Seeking an answer to this question, David Trotter examines the careers of Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis as well as the early psychiatric literature and case-histories of paranoia. The result is a new and unexpected approach to the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture that currently characterize the study of the period.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198187556

OCLC:

46936226