ENGLISH

The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud

By Maud Ellmann

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511780714, 9780521862561, 9780521681094
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511780714
Google Books ID
xTl5ULHa098C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1908670 bytes)
Pages
251\251
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to read, this book offers a new perspective on the inter-implications of Freudian psychoanalysis and Anglophone modernism that will influence the field for years to come.

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