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Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature
K. Valentine
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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ; JMAF; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349507375
SKU
V9781349507375
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99-15
About K. Valentine
KYLIE VALENTINE completed a PhD in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney
Reviews for Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature
'...[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