Abstract This article argues for the significance of modernist fiction to the history of depersonalization, a psychiatric concept that describes the feeling of estrangement or detachment from one's own thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions. It also suggests that reading modernism with a focus on depersonalized experience helps to distinguish “high” from “late” modernism, and to...
Emotional experience was observed intently in nineteenth-century anglophone culture, and often with suspicion. This is evident in the attempts of cultural commentators to censure excessive or inaut...