Dynamic psychology in modernist British fiction
By: by George M. Johnson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Psychology in literature
Description: "In early twentieth-century Britain, novelists including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, May Sinclair, and J.D. Beresford believed that they knew and were able to express more about human behaviour than their Victorian predecessors. What gave them this confidence? Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that it stemmed from their knowledge of pre-Freudian psychologies that mapped the mind in order to prove the existence of the soul. Psychologies developed by William James, William McDougall, Henri Bergson, Pierre Janet, and Frederic Myers articulated the nature of psychic reality, describing its movements and conflicts. Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction restores the significance of earlier psychological discourse, uses it to demonstrate continuity from the Edwardian to modernist novel, and generates fresh readings of British psychological fiction."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.