Note on Contributors Introduction: American Literature and Therapeutic Cultures Nicholas Manning and Martin Halliwell PART I: LATE MODERNISM TO MID-CENTURY 1. "Art was Williams's Therapy": William Carlos Williams's Maieutic Process in Paterson Samantha Lemeunier 2. Public Displays of Disaffection: Lionel Trilling and the Power of Neurosis Timothy Aubry 3. From Resistance to Reconnection: Sylvia Plath Under the Lens of New Therapeutics Aubrey Jones Mugavero PART II: LITERARY LEGACIES OF POSTWAR AMERICA 4. Curing the Collective? Postwar Experimental and Performance Poetry as Social Therapy Célia Galey 5. Diagnosing the Lyric: Therapeutic Cultures and Gender in Postwar American Poetry Juliette Bouanani 6. Pathogenic Culture and Therapeutic Discipline in Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys and Black American Literature Jean-Paul Rocchi PART III: CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 7. Catharsis Unbound: Mythopsychosis in Jerome Charyn's Autofictions Michaëla Cogan 8.

Science Fiction and the Emotional Choreography of Postgenomic Life Cultures Martin Halliwell 9. 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation': Vulnerability and Therapeutic Imaginations in Ottessa Moshfegh's Contemporary Fiction Alwena Queillé Epilogue: Therapeutic Fictions and Democratic Futures Peter Boxall Bibliography Index.