Reading Modernism's Readers

Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Helen Tyson, University of Sussex) Tyson, Helen (Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature

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Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller examines the scene of reading in modernist, psychoanalytic and popular writing from the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writing of Virginia Woolf, and reading her novels alongside writing by Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Ethel M. Dell, Melanie Klein, Marion Milner, and others, this book challenges our prevailing critical assumptions about modernist reading. Reading Modernism's Readers argues that the modernist scene of reading reveals some of our culture's most powerful and enduring fantasies about the role of literature in psychic, social and political life. Reading modernism alongside psychoanalysis and the bestseller, this book aims not only to intervene in debates about modernism, but also to address its legacies in contemporary literature, and in the context of increasingly urgent questions about how and why we read today.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt484 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399522090

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Helen Tyson is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century British Literature at the University of Sussex, where she is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Modernist Studies. Helen has published in Textual Practice, Literature Compass, Feminist Modernist Studies, Critical Quarterly, Literary Review and the TLS. She is co-editor of the award-winning collection of essays Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life (2021).

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Reading Modernism’s Readers1. Modernism and the Childhood Scene of Reading2. Strange Taboos and Detrimental Diets: Reading Ethel M. Dell3. Reading The Waves, Reading You: Virginia Woolf and the Culture of Redemption4. ‘Monsters within and without,’ or, ‘Forebodings about Fascism’: Marion Milner Reads Virginia WoolfConclusion: Reading Modernism’s Readers Today