May Sinclair in Her Time

Reappraising May Sinclair’s Role in Early-Twentieth-Century Literature and Philosophy

Leslie De Bont, Isabelle Brasme, Florence Marie

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...

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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 Sinclair’s involvement in the literary and philosophical debates of her time, this collaborative volume seeks to challenge this liminal status and to reassert Sinclair’s 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 James Joyce) and her engagement with topical issues such as heredity, women’s 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 Sinclair’s 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.

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Year of publication 2024
Author Leslie De Bont, Isabelle Brasme, Florence Marie
Format 16 x 24
ISBN 978-2-36781-509-1
ISSN 0220-5610
Number of pages 252
Editor Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée – PULM
Language English
Type of book Paperback, perfect binding
Date of availability Jul 9, 2024
8 sens stock quantity 25
Weight 0.490000
Subtitle Reappraising May Sinclair’s Role in Early-Twentieth-Century Literature and Philosophy
Leslie De Bont, Isabelle Brasme, Florence Marie

Leslie De Bont is Senior Teaching Fellow (PRAG) at Nantes University.

Isabelle Brasme is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at the University of Nîmes.

Florence Marie is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Pau
et les Pays de l’Adour.

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