May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds
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.
Key Features
Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchersConsiders Sinclair’s contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identityExplores a wide range of Sinclair’s work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

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May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds
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.
Key Features
Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchersConsiders Sinclair’s contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identityExplores a wide range of Sinclair’s work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

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May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474431521
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/22/2018
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rebecca Bowler is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature at Keele University. Before taking up the Lectureship at Keele in September 2016 Dr Bowler was Research Associate on the Dorothy Richardson Scholarly Editions Project, editing the collected letters and complete fiction of the modernist writer Dorothy Richardson for publication with OUP. Her monograph, Literary Impressionism: Vision and Memory in Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and May Sinclair was published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. She is co-founder of the May Sinclair Society and is co-editor, with Claire Drewery, of May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (EUP, 2016).

Claire Drewery is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is the author of Modernist Short Fiction by Women: the Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf (Ashgate 2011), co-founder of the May Sinclair Society, and co-editor, with Rebecca Bowler, of May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds (EUP, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Part I

The Abstract Intellect

 

Chapter 1

‘Dying to live’: remembering and forgetting May Sinclair

Suzanne Raitt

Chapter 2

Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life

Elise Thornton

 

Chapter 3

Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair’s Novels

Leslie de Bont

Chapter 4

Feminism, Freedom, and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair

Wendy Truran

 

Chapter 5

Architecture, Environment, and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine Fire

Terri Mullholland

 

Part II

Abject Bodies

 

Chapter 6

Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety, and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair

Faye Pickrem

Chapter 7

May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians

Rebecca Bowler

 

Chapter 8

Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Charlotte Beyer

 

Chapter 9

Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:’ Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven

Sanna Melin Schyllert

 

Chapter 10

Odd how the War changes us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War Work

Emma Liggins

 

Chapter 11

Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told By Simpson

Claire Drewery

What People are Saying About This

These refreshing essays remind us of what we have lost in forgetting May Sinclair and do much to restore her to her rightful place as a pioneering writer and intellectual. Bowler and Drewery deserve praise for reviving Sinclair’s reputation, a revival that is likely to last far longer than her shameful neglect.

Scott McCracken

These refreshing essays remind us of what we have lost in forgetting May Sinclair and do much to restore her to her rightful place as a pioneering writer and intellectual. Bowler and Drewery deserve praise for reviving Sinclair’s reputation, a revival that is likely to last far longer than her shameful neglect.

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