Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction

Johnson, G.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-10-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403942289

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288072

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240