May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-826
Author(s):  
Terry Phillips
Keyword(s):  
May Sinclair

A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions. May Sinclair

1918 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-567
Author(s):  
M. W. Robieson
Keyword(s):  
May Sinclair

Well-tuned Mediums: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson

2009 ◽  
pp. 43-80
Author(s):  
Tatiana Kontou
Keyword(s):  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
May Sinclair

May Sinclair

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-125
Author(s):  
Charlotte Jones
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Realist Novels ◽  
Power Of Language ◽  
May Sinclair ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Evidence

Chapter 2 extends the previous chapter’s inquiry into the relationship between realist aesthetics and figurative language as it might be oriented towards an unimaginable term—an unknowable, noumenal category—by considering its collision with what May Sinclair posits as its psychological equivalent, the unconscious. Sinclair combined a career as a novelist with philosophical research, mounting a vindication of neo-Hegelian idealist philosophy. For Sinclair, idealism’s impetus for thinking about immaterial and unseen realities led to the intangible and unseen realms of the mind, and a metaphysical absolute becomes the conduit for her early realist novels to begin to imagine a form for the uncertain boundaries and contours of consciousness. Both lack a verifiable content and are therefore apparently beyond the power of language to define or accommodate. This chapter suggests that the models of subjectivity presented in her fiction seek to integrate a revelatory encounter with an idealist absolute with the incontrovertible material evidence of alternative forms of consciousness being presented by the ‘new psychology’.

A Defense of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions. May Sinclair

1919 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Edward Harvey
Keyword(s):  
May Sinclair

Charlotte Mew and May Sinclair: A love-song

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
SUZANNE RAITT
Keyword(s):  
Love Song ◽  
May Sinclair

Bringing Women Together, in Theory

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Allison Pease
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
Liberal Humanism ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
May Sinclair ◽  
Low Theory ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

“Bringing Women Together, in Theory” explores which theories allow feminist modernist scholars to treat as worthy subjects of study more women writers than just those representative few about whom most monographs have been written, thus levelling the playing field between so-called major and minor writers. In the late twentieth-century the historically tense relationship between feminist criticism’s roots in liberal humanism, even as it has had to argue against its definitional constraints, put it in conceptual tension with post-structuralist theory from which feminist theory stemmed. These differences created a contentious and hierarchical relationship in the late-twentieth century between feminist scholars of modernism from which we may now just be emerging. This chapter analyzes the work of May Sinclair and also explores affect theory, low theory, transvaluation, and skepticism.

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