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245 00 a| American literature and therapeutic cultures /c| edited by Nicholas Manning, Martin Halliwell.;

264 1 a| Edinburgh :b| Edinburgh University Press,c| [2026];

300 a| 256 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : American literature and Therapeutic Cultures / Nicholas Manning and Martin Halliwell -- 'Art was Williams's Therapy' : William Carlos Williams's Maieutic Process in Paterson / Samantha Lemeunier -- Public Displays of Disaffection : Lionel Trilling and the Power of Neurosis / Timothy Aubry -- From Resistance to Reconnection : Sylvia Plath Under the Lens of New Therapeutics / Aubrey Jones -- Curing the Collective? Postwar Experimental and Performance Poetry as Social Therapy / Célia Galey -- Diagnosing the Lyric : Therapeutic Cultures and Gender in Postwar American Poetry / Juliette Bouanani -- Pathogenic Culture and Therapeutic Discipline in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Black American Literature / Jean-Paul Rocchi -- Catharsis Unbound : Mythopsychosis in Jerome Charyn's Autofictions / Michaëla Cogan -- Science Fiction and the Emotional Choreography of Postgenomic Life Cultures / Martin Halliwell -- 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' : Vulnerability and Therapeutic Imaginations in Ottessa Moshfegh's Contemporary Fiction / Alwena Queillé -- Therapeutic Fictions and Democratic Futures / Peter Boxall.;

520 a| "Traces the evolving relationship between American literature and therapeutic cultures across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This volume explores the myriad interactions between American literature and psychological discourses in the United States, from self-help to alternative health practices to psychotherapeutic approaches. Spanning the 1940s to the 2020s, it sheds light on the development and conceptualization of therapeutic culture during a century in which it has oscillated between clinical and cultural domains. Bringing together an intergenerational group of scholars from France, the UK and the US, the collection examines authors as varied as William Carlos Williams, Lionel Trilling, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, Colson Whitehead, Daniel Suarez and Ottessa Moshfegh. Moving beyond the conventional focus on psychoanalysis, the eleven contributors foreground how American literature is animated by broader therapeutic modes and trajectories. At stake are not only literature's historical links to psychological theories and institutions, but the neoliberal framing of literary texts as tools for personal restoration."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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American literature and therapeutic cultures / edited by Nicholas Manning, Martin Halliwell.

Other author	Manning, Nicholas, 1982- editor.
Other author	Halliwell, Martin editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	256 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	American literature--20th century. --History and criticism. American literature--21st century. --History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Psychotherapy in literature. Psychology in literature.

Contents	Introduction : American literature and Therapeutic Cultures / Nicholas Manning and Martin Halliwell -- 'Art was Williams's Therapy' : William Carlos Williams's Maieutic Process in Paterson / Samantha Lemeunier -- Public Displays of Disaffection : Lionel Trilling and the Power of Neurosis / Timothy Aubry -- From Resistance to Reconnection : Sylvia Plath Under the Lens of New Therapeutics / Aubrey Jones -- Curing the Collective? Postwar Experimental and Performance Poetry as Social Therapy / Célia Galey -- Diagnosing the Lyric : Therapeutic Cultures and Gender in Postwar American Poetry / Juliette Bouanani -- Pathogenic Culture and Therapeutic Discipline in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Black American Literature / Jean-Paul Rocchi -- Catharsis Unbound : Mythopsychosis in Jerome Charyn's Autofictions / Michaëla Cogan -- Science Fiction and the Emotional Choreography of Postgenomic Life Cultures / Martin Halliwell -- 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' : Vulnerability and Therapeutic Imaginations in Ottessa Moshfegh's Contemporary Fiction / Alwena Queillé -- Therapeutic Fictions and Democratic Futures / Peter Boxall.
Abstract	"Traces the evolving relationship between American literature and therapeutic cultures across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This volume explores the myriad interactions between American literature and psychological discourses in the United States, from self-help to alternative health practices to psychotherapeutic approaches. Spanning the 1940s to the 2020s, it sheds light on the development and conceptualization of therapeutic culture during a century in which it has oscillated between clinical and cultural domains. Bringing together an intergenerational group of scholars from France, the UK and the US, the collection examines authors as varied as William Carlos Williams, Lionel Trilling, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, Colson Whitehead, Daniel Suarez and Ottessa Moshfegh. Moving beyond the conventional focus on psychoanalysis, the eleven contributors foreground how American literature is animated by broader therapeutic modes and trajectories. At stake are not only literature's historical links to psychological theories and institutions, but the neoliberal framing of literary texts as tools for personal restoration."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: American literature and therapeutic cultures. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026] 9781399551359
ISBN	9781399551328
ISBN	1399551329 (hardback)
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