Victoria Coulson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Coulson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulson |
| SIGNATURE | COULSON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition
This article begins with critics’ hostility toward Gilbert Osmond, the notorious villain of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881). It identifies this tradition as a response to Osmond's identity as a trans woman and to the mode of embodiment that Osmond demonstrates as one possible solution to the problem of the “wrong body.” The article's first half sketches the status of the wrong body in trans studies, where the concept is disfavored as …
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction
Despite the exceptional literary quality, remarkable conceptual sophistication and compelling socio-historical interest of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, her fiction has received relatively little critical attention in comparison to the work of such acknowledged giants of the modern canon as, for example, Woolf and Joyce. The past decade has seen a lively burgeoning of interest in Bowen’s work, recent scholarship focusing with a new intensity on the …
Elizabeth Bowen’s Psychoanalytic Fiction
Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction The first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction to appear since 2004 Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short stories Literary analysis informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation This book provides a new account of Bowen’s fiction that highlights in particular …
'Stealing Silk is My Delight'
This essay contends that contemporary practices of literary criticism unreflectively reiterate distinctive propositions about subjectivity that derive from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking predicated on a splitting of the mind from the body to enable the philosophical subject to transcend death by disavowing the material object world. To explore this claim, the essay examines the reception by late twentieth- …
The baby and the mirror
Contemporary practices of critical theory manifest an unreflective internalisation of distinctive propositions about language and subjectivity deriving from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking in which the masculine subject of philosophy seeks to transcend death by disavowing the maternal matter of the body, and its hallmark is a denigration of representation which has been incorporated and reproduced uncritical…
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'Stealing Silk is My Delight'
This essay contends that contemporary practices of literary criticism unreflectively reiterate distinctive propositions about subjectivity that derive from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking predicated on a splitting of the mind from the body to enable the philosophical subject to transcend death by disavowing the material object world. To explore this claim, the essay examines the reception by late twentieth- …
The baby and the mirror
Contemporary practices of critical theory manifest an unreflective internalisation of distinctive propositions about language and subjectivity deriving from a long tradition of idealist philosophy. It is a tradition of thinking in which the masculine subject of philosophy seeks to transcend death by disavowing the maternal matter of the body, and its hallmark is a denigration of representation which has been incorporated and reproduced uncritical…
Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction
Despite the exceptional literary quality, remarkable conceptual sophistication and compelling socio-historical interest of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, her fiction has received relatively little critical attention in comparison to the work of such acknowledged giants of the modern canon as, for example, Woolf and Joyce. The past decade has seen a lively burgeoning of interest in Bowen’s work, recent scholarship focusing with a new intensity on the …
Elizabeth Bowen’s Psychoanalytic Fiction
Fuses historical and psychoanalytic perspectives to offer a provocative and original analysis of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction The first major analysis of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction to appear since 2004 Substantial, in-depth and distinctive interpretation of her novels and short stories Literary analysis informed by biographical, cultural and political contextualisation This book provides a new account of Bowen’s fiction that highlights in particular …
Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition
This article begins with critics’ hostility toward Gilbert Osmond, the notorious villain of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881). It identifies this tradition as a response to Osmond's identity as a trans woman and to the mode of embodiment that Osmond demonstrates as one possible solution to the problem of the “wrong body.” The article's first half sketches the status of the wrong body in trans studies, where the concept is disfavored as …
Art (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (2 works) · English literature (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)