Reading Modernism's Readers: Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

Helen Tyson

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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Reading Modernism's Readers

Virginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Series Editors’ Preface
pp ix-x

Introduction - Reading Modernism’s Readers
pp 1-27

1 - Modernism and the Childhood Scene of Reading
pp 28-63

2 - Strange Taboos and Detrimental Diets: Reading Ethel M. Dell
pp 64-101

3 - Reading The Waves, Reading You: Virginia Woolf and the Culture of Redemption
pp 102-145

4 - ‘Monsters Within and Without’, or, ‘Forebodings about Fascism’: Marion Milner Reads Virginia Woolf
pp 146-182

Conclusion: Reading Modernism’s Readers Today
pp 183-196

Bibliography
pp 197-217

Index
pp 218-229

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