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Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair's writingMay Sinclair was a bestselling author of her day whose versatile literary output, including criticism, philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis and experimental fiction, now frequently falls between the established categories of literary modernism. In terms of her contribution to dominant modernist paradigms she was, until recently, best remembered for recasting the psychological novel as 'stream of consciousness' narrative in a 1918 review of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage.This book brings together the most recent research on Sinclair and re-contextualises her work both within and against dominant Modernist narratives. It explores Sinclair's negotiations between the public and private, the cerebral and the corporeal and the spiritual and the profane in both her fiction and non-fiction.Key FeaturesBrings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchersConsiders Sinclair's contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identityExplores a wide range of Sinclair's work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories
Contents
Introduction
Part I
The Abstract Intellect
Chapter 1
'Dying to live': remembering and forgetting May Sinclair
Suzanne Raitt
Chapter 2
Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: A Life
Elise Thornton
Chapter 3
Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair's Novels
Leslie de Bont
Chapter 4
Feminism, Freedom, and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair
Wendy Truran
Chapter 5
Architecture, Environment, and 'Scenic Effect' in May Sinclair's The Divine Fire
Terri Mullholland
Part II
Abject Bodies
Chapter 6
Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety, and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair
Faye Pickrem
Chapter 7
May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians
Rebecca Bowler
Chapter 8
Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair's Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Charlotte Beyer
Chapter 9
Why British Society Had to 'Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:' Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven
Sanna Melin Schyllert
Chapter 10
Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair and Women's War Work
Emma Liggins
Chapter 11
Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told By Simpson
Claire Drewery
