Laura Marcus - A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture

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This series offers accessible, innovative approaches to major areas of literary study. Each volume provides an indispensable companion for anyone wishing to gain an authoritative understanding of a given period or movement's intellectual character and contexts.

Edited by Laura Marcus and Ankhi Mukherjee

This edition first published 2014
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A concise companion to psychoanalysis, literature, and culture / edited by Laura Marcus and Ankhi Mukherjee.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-8860-9 (cloth)
1.Psychoanalysis and literature.2.Psychoanalysis and culture.I.Marcus, Laura.II.Mukherjee, Ankhi.
PN56.P92C666 2014150.195dc23

2014001165

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Isobel Armstrong is a fellow of the British Academy, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, and Professor Emeritus of what is now the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair. During her time at Birkbeck, continuing the powerful tradition of nineteenth-century studies established by Geoffrey Tillotson, Barbara Hardy, and Michael Slater, she founded the London Seminar for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (of whose committee she is still a member). She has published widely on nineteenth-century studies (in particular Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, 1996) and theory (see The Radical Aesthetic, 2000). Her latest book, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination (2008), won the Modern Language Associations James Russell Lowell Prize in 2009. She gave the British Academy Warton Lecture on Poetry in 2011. She is working on a study of the nineteenth-century novel and the democratic imagination. During retirement she has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities and spoken at international conferences. She is a published poet.

Carolyn Burdett is Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies in the Department of English at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests have focused on the literature, culture, and politics of the period 18801920. She has written a monograph titled Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire (2001). She co-edited a special issue on Eugenics Old and New for the journal New Formations in 2007 and has also co-edited a collection of essays on The Victorian Supernatural (2004). She is currently researching a book about the emergence of the term empathy at the beginning of the twentieth century, with particular focus on how cultural forms in the nineteenth century helped to shape the ways emotional life was conceived and discussed.

Tim Dean is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious (1991), Beyond Sexuality (2000), Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (2009), and