May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

Rebecca Bowler; Claire Drewery

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

May Sinclair

Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474415767

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Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair’s writing

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.

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.

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Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchers
Considers Sinclair’s contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identity
Explores a wide range of Sinclair’s work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: May Sinclair’s Interdisciplinarity Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Abstract Intellect
Chapter 1 ‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair Suzanne Raitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life Elise Thornton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3 Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair’s Novels Leslie de Bont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4 Feminism, Freedom and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair Wendy Truran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5 Architecture, Environment and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine Fire Terri Mullholland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part II: Abject Bodies
Chapter 6 Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair Faye Pickrem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter 7 May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians Rebecca Bowler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 8 Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean Charlotte Beyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 9 Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed’: Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven Sanna Melin Schyllert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 10 ‘Odd How the War Changes Us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War Work Emma Liggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Chapter 11 Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told by Simpson Claire Drewery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: December 2, 2016
ISBN: 9781474415767