Psychoanalysis, psychiatry and modernist literature / Kylie Valentine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valentine, Kylie, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature--Psychological aspects.

Literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

History.

Great Britain.

Psychoanalysis and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Literature--Psychology.

Psychiatry in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 224 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

Two developments during the modernist period--the consolidation of psychiatry as a medical speciality and the emergence of psychoanalysis--affected the representation of madness in literature. They also influenced the ways psychic distress was experienced, narrated, and understood. Literature and criticism in turn affected the formation of the modern psychological self. Presenting detailed readings of modernists like Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman, this book argues that modernist madness can be understood as experience, clinical discourse, and cultural representation.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221) and index.

ISBN:

1403900612

OCLC:

50630631