Psychoanalysis,psychiatry and Modernist Literature

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 both canonical and non-canonical modernists like Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman, this book argues that modernist madness can be understood as experience, clinical discourse and cultural representation.

Info autore

KYLIE VALENTINE completed a PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney

Riassunto

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.

Testo aggiuntivo

'...[will] add greatly to our knowledge of this rich cultural moment. I would expect it to become a significant reference point for scholars working in this field' - Peter A. Nicholls, University of Sussex

Relazione

'...[will] add greatly to our knowledge of this rich cultural moment. I would expect it to become a significant reference point for scholars working in this field' - Peter A. Nicholls, University of Sussex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: K. Valentine, K Valentine
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2003
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Studi di genere (gender studies); Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche cliniche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie
• EAN: 9781349507375
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50737-5
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Categorie: Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Gender Studies, Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Psychiatry, Literature: history & criticism, Analytical & Jungian psychology, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Psychoanalytical & Freudian psychology