Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness (Hardcover)

Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed 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 FeaturesRereads Antonia White's writing in the context of manic-depressive illness and scholarship on narrative identity and illnessDocuments the ways in which early psychoanalytic theories of female development impacted White through her Freudian analysis in the 1930sDocuments how psychoanalysis and Catholicism served as master narratives or templates for White's stories of self

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Patricia Moran
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-1821-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4744-1821-X
Barcode:	9781474418218

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