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If modernism was anything, it was a literature of consciousness. For that reason, Freud and psychoanalysis have long been seen as crucial context to the literary innovations of the early twentieth century. Secret Sharers, however, troubles received notions about the role of Freud within literary modernism, offering a new narrative in which modernism was shaped by an engagement that was both anxious and constitutive. Jennifer Spitzer's book is a timely invitation to reexamine modernism's fundamental concerns and their bearing on the work we do as literary critics.---Timothy Wientzen, author of Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex Spitzer moves beyond standard accounts of literary modernism's debt to Freud to show how practicing psychoanalysts and modernist writers worked in close proximity on the same terrain--narrating the minds of others, interpreting the meaning of texts, theorizing queer experience. Attuned to subtler forms of influence and reaction--and featuring an ensemble cast of secondary characters who practiced or wrote about Freudian psychoanalysis--Secret Sharers offers a revelatory account of the rise of modernist conceptions of literary autonomy.---Laura Heffernan, author of The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study

If modernism was anything, it was a literature of consciousness. For that reason, Freud and psychoanalysis have long been seen as crucial context to the literary innovations of the early twentieth century. Secret Sharers, however, troubles received notions about the role of Freud within literary modernism, offering a new narrative in which modernism was shaped by an engagement that was both anxious and constitutive. Jennifer Spitzer's book is a timely invitation to reexamine modernism's fundamental concerns and their bearing on the work we do as literary critics.---Timothy Wientzen, author of Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex, Spitzer moves beyond standard accounts of literary modernism's debt to Freud to show how practicing psychoanalysts and modernist writers worked in close proximity on the same terrain--narrating the minds of others, interpreting the meaning of texts, theorizing queer experience. Attuned to subtler forms of influence and reaction--and featuring an ensemble cast of secondary characters who practiced or wrote about Freudian psychoanalysis--Secret Sharers offers a revelatory account of the rise of modernist conceptions of literary autonomy.---Laura Heffernan, author of The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study,

"Spitzer makes a convincing case for the influence of psychoanalysis on the content and direction of modernist literature, also arguing that the relationship influenced the perception and direction of psychoanalytic thinking. This book masterfully illustrates that no subject can be understood in isolation, underscoring the value of broad liberal arts education. Highly recommended.-- ""Choice Reviews"" If modernism was anything, it was a literature of consciousness. For that reason, Freud and psychoanalysis have long been seen as crucial context to the literary innovations of the early twentieth century. Secret Sharers, however, troubles received notions about the role of Freud within literary modernism, offering a new narrative in which modernism was shaped by an engagement that was both anxious and constitutive. Jennifer Spitzer's book is a timely invitation to reexamine modernism's fundamental concerns and their bearing on the work we do as literary critics.---Timothy Wientzen, author of Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex Spitzer moves beyond standard accounts of literary modernism's debt to Freud to show how practicing psychoanalysts and modernist writers worked in close proximity on the same terrain--narrating the minds of others, interpreting the meaning of texts, theorizing queer experience. Attuned to subtler forms of influence and reaction--and featuring an ensemble cast of secondary characters who practiced or wrote about Freudian psychoanalysis--Secret Sharers offers a revelatory account of the rise of modernist conceptions of literary autonomy.---Laura Heffernan, author of The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study"

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Jennifer Spitzer is Associate Professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Ithaca College. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Quarterly, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and other venues.

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