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English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Psychoanalysis and literature, Anxiety in literature, Modernism (Literature) , Family in literature.
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1991
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PR888.P74C55 1991eb
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823/.91209
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English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Psychoanalysis and literature, Anxiety in literature, Modernism (Literature) , Family in literature.
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Gestures Of Healing
Anxiety & the Modern Novel
John J. Clayton
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For Sharon, whose gestures heal
Copyright 1991 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 90-24889 ISBN 0-87023-739-x Set in Linotron Sabon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clayton, John Jacob. Gestures of healing : anxiety and the modern novel / John J. Clayton. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87023-739-x (alk. paper). 1. English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Psychoanalysis and literature. 4. Anxiety in literature. 5. Modernism (Literature). 6. Family in literature. 1. Title. PR888.P74C55 1991 823'.91209dczo 90-24889
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Part One. Unthinkable Anxiety
Chapter 1. Unthinkable Anxiety
3
Part Two. No Ground To Stand On
Chapter 2. Family Ghosts
29
Chapter 3. Chaos
47
Part Three. Living With Chaos
Chapter 4. The Impostor
62
Chapter 5. Journey into Chaos
74
Part Four. Order And Chaos
Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Order
91
Chapter 7. The Aesthetics of Chaos
100
Part Five. Gestures Of Healing
Chapter 8. Gestures of Healing
17
Chapter 9. Healing the Culture
132
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Part Six. Individual Studies
Chapter 10. The Psychological Strategy of Henry James
147
Chapter 11. Moments of Healing: Virginia Woolf
166
Chapter 12. D. H. Lawrence as Healer
182
Notes
199
Bibliography
217
Index
227
Page vii
PREFACE
Michel Foucault has expressed, expressed wonderfully because precisely, the opposite of my own orientation.
According to Foucault in "What Is an Author?" writing has "freed itself from the dimension of expression." The ''author" is, he says, dead, so dead that the news is old hat by now. Then he examines what an author is outside of our idealizations:
These aspects of an individual which we designate as making him an author are only a projection, in more or less psychologizing terms, of the operations that we force texts to undergo, the connections that we make, the traits that we establish as pertinent, the continuities that we recognize, or the exclusions that we practice. (P. 110)
Foucault is, of course, neither right nor wrong; he has offered an analytical heuristic, a brilliant move designed to leave him with texts and without privileged authors. My own approach is so different that I can use his passage as a touchstone: if you find Foucault's orientation compatible with your own, you will probably be resistant to mine. Foucault has played a magician's trick to eliminate the human creatures who suffered and rejoiced and wrote out of this suffering and joy, adapting the language of our common experience. But it's precisely those actual human beings who interest me. I see their writing as expressions of pain and as complex gestures of healing to handle that pain. I am interested in what their writing did for them and what it does for me as a particular reader.
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