Add to ORKGModernism\u27s Nervous Genre: The Diaries of Woolf, James, and Sassoon works to establish the modernist diary-as-genre within the ever-elusive concept of nerves, which exceeded various interpretations and translations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The body was conceived in modernist medical and social discourses as machine, as motor, as the site of energy and fatigue, and as apt to break down. This juncture of breaking down serves as the critical and theoretical link between the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Alice James, and Siegfried Sassoon. All three diarists suffered from nervous disorders, and each worked to self-fashion in their diaries, challenging and critiquing the labels of madness, neurasthenia, an...
Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.S. authors doing...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).Twentieth-century Modernist poetry is best discuss...
This dissertation argues that a growing failure to distinguish mind from machine induces a state of ...
This article explores affinities between the methods used for sensory self-observation in the Diarie...
This thesis argues that psychological anxiety is a central narrative mechanism for modernist writin...
The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hys...
In recent years, there has been a surge in work by literary critics which considers the literature o...
The modern history began with the revolt of individual selfconsciousness against social pressure, wh...
T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the ...
Madness and Modernism is undoubtedly one of the most profound and perspicacious treatments of an ill...
By 1920, according to the poet Bryher, ‘all literary London’ had ‘discovered Freud’ – but not all of...
My thesis recognizes Virginia Woolf's writing to be composed of a mosaic of multiple art forms such ...
Modernism in Relief looks at how minor modernist texts utilize literary conventions in order to resh...
In the nineteenth century, the discussion of personal health and wellbeing became almost a national ...
Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway, through Clarissa Dalloway’s and other parallel stories, presents us...
Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.S. authors doing...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).Twentieth-century Modernist poetry is best discuss...
This dissertation argues that a growing failure to distinguish mind from machine induces a state of ...
This article explores affinities between the methods used for sensory self-observation in the Diarie...
This thesis argues that psychological anxiety is a central narrative mechanism for modernist writin...
The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hys...
In recent years, there has been a surge in work by literary critics which considers the literature o...
The modern history began with the revolt of individual selfconsciousness against social pressure, wh...
T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the ...
Madness and Modernism is undoubtedly one of the most profound and perspicacious treatments of an ill...
By 1920, according to the poet Bryher, ‘all literary London’ had ‘discovered Freud’ – but not all of...
My thesis recognizes Virginia Woolf's writing to be composed of a mosaic of multiple art forms such ...
Modernism in Relief looks at how minor modernist texts utilize literary conventions in order to resh...
In the nineteenth century, the discussion of personal health and wellbeing became almost a national ...
Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway, through Clarissa Dalloway’s and other parallel stories, presents us...
Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.S. authors doing...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58).Twentieth-century Modernist poetry is best discuss...
This dissertation argues that a growing failure to distinguish mind from machine induces a state of ...