Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Modernist Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403900616)

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.

Author: K. Valentine
ISBN-10: 1403900612
ISBN-13: 9781403900616
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2003
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.78w x 0.72d