The doctor looks at literature
The Doctor Looks at Literature, published in 1923, is a collection of essays by Joseph Collins, a New York neurologist, on the novelists who were remaking fiction in his day. Looking at their work through the lens of psychology, he writes on James Joyce, an early American response to Ulysses, on Dostoevsky, Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West, Stella Benson, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence, among others, and closes with an attack on what he calls magazine insanity. His judgments are sometimes baffled and moralizing, but the book is a revealing document of how modernist literature looked to an educated reader of the 1920s. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first essay is free.
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Is The doctor looks at literature in the public domain?
Yes. The doctor looks at literature by Joseph Collins is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 6 h 17 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is The doctor looks at literature?
The doctor looks at literature by Joseph Collins is filed under "Fiction" in the Vinteuil library.
