Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness
Autor Patricia Moranen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2019
Misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive illness, Antonia White turned repeatedly to psychoanalysis and Catholicism to resolve the emotional conflicts that she believed were the cause of her tumultuous moods, her inexplicable behaviour, and her writer's block. This study rereads White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illness to show how the misdiagnosis of her illness shaped the identity narratives White constructed in her life-writing and then used as the basis for her strongly autobiographical fiction. White's self-narratives have skewed critical interpretations of her work; at the same time, her fiction has not been studied as expressive of affective disorder. By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White; documents the complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors involved in affective disorder; and historicises the diagnosis and treatment of White's illness in medical, psychoanalytic, and Catholic contexts.
Key Features
- Rereads Antonia White's writing in the context of manic-depressive illness and scholarship on narrative identity and illness
- Documents the ways in which early psychoanalytic theories of female development impacted White through her Freudian analysis in the 1930s
- Documents how psychoanalysis and Catholicism served as master narratives or templates for White's stories of self
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781474452519
ISBN-10: 1474452515
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN-10: 1474452515
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 155 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Descriere
By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White.