David Trotter

Paranoid Modernism

Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society

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Produktbeschreibung

To understand that obstinacy in its professional and psychiatric contexts is to approach from a new and unexpected angle the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture which currently characterize the study of Modernism. The energies it shook loose in their writing are energies which, evading absorption into the 'postmodern', continue to shape Western society and culture to this day.

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What provoked the fierce and systematic "will to experiment" that was Modernism? Seeking an answer to this question, David Trotter examines the careers of Ford Madox Ford, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis as well as the early psychiatric literature and case-histories of paranoia. The result is a new and unexpected approach to the preoccupations with gender and with the politics of culture that currently characterize the study of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780198187554
• ISBN-10: 0198187556
• Artikelnr.: 21633365

Autorenporträt

(Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, University College London)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: A Brief History of Paranoia
2: Paranoia, Psychoanalysis, and Cultural Theory
3: Career Development: William Godwin, Wilkie Collins, and the Psychopathologies of Expertise
4: Towards an Epidemiology of Paranoid Narrative
5: One of Whom? Lord Jim and 'Ability in the Abstract'
6: Ford's Impressionism
7: The Will-to-Abstraction: Hulme, Lewis, Lawrence
8: D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love, Men in Madness
9: Wyndham Lewis's Professions
10: Beyond Modernism, Beyond Paranoia
Index