Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: May Sinclair’s Interdisciplinarity 1
5. Part I: The Abstract Intellect
6. Chapter 1 ‘Dying to Live’: Remembering and Forgetting May Sinclair 21
7. Chapter 2 Learning Greek: The Woman Artist as Autodidact in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life 39
8. Chapter 3 Portrait of the Female Character as a Psychoanalytical Case: The Ambiguous Influence of Freud on May Sinclair’s Novels 59
9. Chapter 4 Feminism, Freedom and the Hierarchy of Happiness in the Psychological Novels of May Sinclair 79
10. Chapter 5 Architecture, Environment and ‘Scenic Effect’ in May Sinclair’s The Divine Fire 98
11. Part II: Abject Bodies
12. Chapter 6 Disembodying Desire: Ontological Fantasy, Libidinal Anxiety and the Erotics of Renunciation in May Sinclair 119
13. Chapter 7 May Sinclair and Physical Culture: Fit Greeks and Flabby Victorians 139
14. Chapter 8 Dolls and Dead Babies: Victorian Motherhood in May Sinclair’s Life and Death of Harriett Frean 156
15. Chapter 9 Why British Society Had to ‘Get a Young Virgin Sacrificed’: Sacrificial Destiny in The Tree of Heaven 177
16. Chapter 10 ‘Odd How the War Changes Us’: May Sinclair and Women’s War Work 194
17. Chapter 11 Transgressing Boundaries; Transcending Bodies: Sublimation and the Abject Corpus in Uncanny Stories and Tales Told by Simpson 213
18. Notes on Contributors 232
19. Index 235