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Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction /

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, embra...

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Main Author: Johnson, George M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Subjects:
Psychology.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Psychoanalysis.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIX, 240 pages)
ISBN:9780230288072
DOI:10.1057/9780230288072