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

by Maud Ellmann

• ISBN13: 9780521862561
• ISBN10: 0521862566
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

An important new contribution to literary criticism by one of the foremost modernist scholars working today.

Author Biography

Maud Ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English at the University of Chicago. A well-known scholar of modernism and psychoanalysis, she has also written The Poetics of Impersonality: T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing, and Imprisonment, and Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page (winner of the 2004 Crawshay Prize from the British Academy), and has edited a Longman Critical Reader in Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (1994).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. x
Introduction: what hole?	p. 1
The modernist rat	p. 14
Strandentwining cables: Henry James's The Ambassadors	p. 35
The Woolf woman	p. 62
The darkened blind: Joyce, Gide, Larsen, and the modernist short story	p. 93
The name and the scar: identity in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	p. 129
Skinscapes in Ulysses	p. 151
Afterword	p. 167
Notes	p. 171
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 233
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