Examinant l'implication de l'écrivaine dans les débats littéraires, philosophiques et psychologiques de son temps, les contributeurs réévaluent le statut de May Sinclair, souvent considérée comme une auteure entre la culture victorienne et le modernisme. Ils dépassent ce clivage traditionnel pour mettre en lumière la dimension inclusive du monde intellectuel britannique du début du XXe siècle. ©Electre 2025
May Sinclair has been typically considered as a liminal author, positioned between two eras : the 19th and the 20th centuries, Victorian culture and modernism, traditional and avant-garde writing and thinking. As a result, traditional criticism has confined her to the margins of 20th-century literature and philosophy. Re-examining Sinclairs involvement in the literary and philosophical debates of her time, this collaborative volume seeks to challenge this liminal status and to reassert Sinclairs role as an author, critic and thinker firmly established within her time. Leading experts in philosophy and in criticism on May Sinclair thus investigate her presence on the literary scene, her dialogues with her contemporaries (e. g. Dorothy Richardson, H.D., Ford Madox Ford and lames Joyce) and her engagement with topical issues such as heredity, womens rights and mysticism, as well as with modernist paradigms such as the epiphany. In light of these new analyses, rather than being uncomfortably situated between two eras, Sinclair emerges as fully in and of her time, engaged in a constant conversation with fellow thinkers, writers, and artists. On a larger scale, this reappraisal of Sinclairs fruitful connections with her peers invites us to go beyond the conventional divide opposing Victorian and modernist writing, and to participate in the current dynamics in criticism that aims to offer a more inclusive and accurate definition of the intellectual scene in early-20th-century Britain.
Paru le : 02/06/2024
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Collection(s) : Horizons anglophones
Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Leslie de Bont - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Isabelle Brasme - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Florence Marie-Laverrou
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-36781-509-1
EAN13 : 9782367815091
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 248
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.4 cm
Poids: 490 g
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