May Sinclair: Re-Thinking Bodies and Minds

Explores the tension between the abstract intellect and material bodies in May Sinclair's writing.

May 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.

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Brings together the most recent research undertaken by foremost Sinclair scholars and early-career researchers
Considers Sinclair's contribution to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical debates about the nature and representation of human identity
Explores a wide range of Sinclair's work, including fiction, psychology, philosophy and short stories

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: May Sinclair's Interdisciplinarity
pp 1-18
- By Rebecca Bowler, Keele University, Claire Drewery, Sheffield Hallam University
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Part I - The Abstract Intellect
pp 19-20
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1 - ‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair
pp 21-38
- By Suzanne Raitt, Professor of English at the College of William & Mary.
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2 - Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: A Life
pp 39-58
- By Elise Thornton, BA from New York University
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3 - Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair's Novels
pp 59-78
- By Leslie de Bont, English at the faculty of psychology in the University of Nantes, France.
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4 - Feminism, Freedom and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair
pp 79-97
- By Wendy Truran, English doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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5 - Architecture, Environment and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair's The Divine Fire
pp 98-116
- By Terri Mullholland, Doctorate in English from the University of Oxford.
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Part II - Abject Bodies
pp 117-118
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6 - Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair
pp 119-138
- By Faye Pickrem, Doctoral dissertation on May Sinclair at York University, Toronto
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7 - May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians
pp 139-155
- By Rebecca Bowler, Keele University
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8 - Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair's Life and Death of Harriett Frean
pp 156-176
- By Charlotte Beyer, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire.
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9 - Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:’ Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven
pp 177-193
- By Sanna Melin Schyllert, Doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster,
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10 - ‘Odd How the War Changes Us’: May Sinclair and Women's War Work
pp 194-212
- By Emma Liggins, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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11 - Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told by Simpson
pp 213-231
- By Claire Drewery, Sheffield Hallam University
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Notes on Contributors
pp 232-234
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction: May Sinclair's Interdisciplinarity
pp 1-18

Part I - The Abstract Intellect
pp 19-20

1 - ‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair
pp 21-38

2 - Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: A Life
pp 39-58

3 - Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair's Novels
pp 59-78

4 - Feminism, Freedom and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair
pp 79-97

5 - Architecture, Environment and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair's The Divine Fire
pp 98-116

Part II - Abject Bodies
pp 117-118

6 - Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair
pp 119-138

7 - May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians
pp 139-155

8 - Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair's Life and Death of Harriett Frean
pp 156-176

9 - Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed:’ Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven
pp 177-193

10 - ‘Odd How the War Changes Us’: May Sinclair and Women's War Work
pp 194-212

11 - Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told by Simpson
pp 213-231

Notes on Contributors
pp 232-234

Index
pp 235-240

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