1st Edition

The Doctor Looks at Literature Psychological Studies of Life and Letters

By Joseph Collins Copyright 1923
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent. But none who read it will ever view the most modern literature from quite the same angle as before. This book breaks new ground and establishes a rationale of criticism which is at once intensely... Read more

1. Psychology and Fiction  2. Ireland’s Latest Literary Antinomian: James Joyce  3. Fedor Dostoievsky: Tragedist, Prophet, and Psychologist  4. Dorothy Richardson and Her Censor  5. Marcel Proust: Master Psychologist and Pilot of the “Vraie Vie”  6. Two Literary Ladies of London: Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West  7. Two Lesser Literary Ladies of London: Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf  8. The Psychology of the Diarist: W. N. T. Barbellion  9. The Psychology of the Diarist: Henri-Frédéric Amiel  10. Georges Duhamel: Poet, Pacifist, and Physician  11. Even Yet It Can’t Be Told – The Whole Truth about D. H. Lawrence  12. The Joy of Living and Writing About It: John St. Loe Strachey  13. The King of Gath Unto His Servant: Magazine Insanity.

Biography

Joseph Collins (1866–1950) was an American neurologist. He was co-founder to the NewYork Neurological Institute.