Reading Modernism's Readers by Helen Tyson - 9781399522090

Reading Modernism's ReadersVirginia Woolf, Psychoanalysis and the Bestseller\nAuthor(s): Helen Tyson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399522090, 978-1399522090\nSynopsis\nReading Modernisms 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 Modernisms Readers argues that the modernist scene of reading reveals some of our cultures most powerful and enduring fantasies about the role of literature in psychic, social and political life. Reading modernism alongside psychoanalysis and the bestseller, this b.