Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction
ISBN-10
0230288073
ISBN-13
9780230288072
Category
Psychology
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2005-10-06
Publisher
Springer
Author
G. Johnson

Description

Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction. Psychoanalysis has received undue attention over a more typical British eclecticism, embraced by now-forgotten figures including Frederic Myers and William McDougall. This project focuses on the Edwardian novelists most fully engaged by dynamic psychology, May Sinclair, and J.D. Beresford, but also reconsiders Arnold Bennett and D.H. Lawrence. The book concludes by demonstrating Woolf's subtle assimilation of pre-Freudian discourse.

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