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Antonia White and manic-depressive illness / Patricia Moran.
LIBRA PR6045.H16 Z36 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- White, Antonia, 1899-1980--Mental health.
- White, Antonia.
- White, Antonia, 1899-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
- White, Antonia, 1899-1980.
- People with bipolar disorder--Great Britain--Biography.
- People with bipolar disorder.
- Diagnostic errors--England.
- Diagnostic errors.
- English fiction--20th century.
- English fiction.
- Mental health.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]
- Summary:
- Misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder. By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the context of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White; documents the complex interplay of biological, psychological and environmental factors involved in affective disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's illness in medical, psychoanalytic and Catholic contexts. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Beast in White's Jungle: Manic-Depressive Illness 39
- 2 'I am a schizophrene': Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White's Stories of Self 75
- 3 Master plots: Psychoanalysis and Catholicism 101
- 4 An Unfinished. Story: White's Fictions of the Self 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: 9781474418232
- ISBN:
- 9781474418218
- 147441821X
- OCLC:
- 1031715893
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