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Article: Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2004
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Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society. By DAVID TROTTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. viii+358 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818755-6.
A critical subindustry has mobilized around the issue of professionalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centures, focused on the institutional, economic, technological, and social contexts within which writers marketed themselves, sold their products, and sought recognition. David Trotter's Paranoid Modernism relates such concerns to developments in psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories emerging in the same period. The result is a ...