The Doctor Looks at Literature

Psychological Studies of Life and Letters

Joseph Collins

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040388945
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
• Index: Literature

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: "This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent. But none who read it will ever view the most modern literature from quite the same angle as before. This book breaks new ground and establishes a rationale of criticism which is at once intensely interesting and valuable." Today it can be read in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1923. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgement
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• Original Half Title
• Chapter I Psychology and Fiction
• Chapter II Ireland’s Latest Literary Antinomian: James Joyce
• Chapter III Feodor Dostoievsky: Tragedist, Prophet, and Psychologist
• Chapter IV Dorothy Richardson and Her Censor
• Chapter V Marcel Proust: Master Psychologist and Pilot of the “Vraie Vie”
• Chapter VI Two Literary Ladies of London: Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West
• Chapter VII Two Lesser Literary Ladies of London: Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf
• Chapter VIII The Psychology of the Diarist: W. N. T. Barbellion
• Chapter IX The Psychology of the Diarist: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Chapter X Georges Duhamel: Poet, Pacifist, and Physician
• Chapter XI Even Yet It Can’t Be Told—the Whole Truth about D. H. Lawrence
• Chapter XII The Joy of Living and Writing about It: John St. Loe Strachey
• Chapter XIII The King of Gath unto His Servant: Magazine Insanity