May Sinclair : re-thinking bodies and minds / edited by Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowler, Rebecca, Author.

Contributor:

Bowler, Rebecca, editor.

Drewery, Claire, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sinclair, May--Criticism and interpretation.

Sinclair, May.

Literary Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair's writing.<p>May 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.</p><p>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.</p>Key Features<ul><li>Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchers</li><li>Considers Sinclair's contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identity</li><li>Explores a wide range of Sinclair's work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories</li></ul>

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1577-6

1-4744-1576-8