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Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain.
Title:
Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain.
Author:
Gordon, C.
ISBN:
9780230604186
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Germ Cultures: D. H. Lawrence and the Vital Question of the Tubercular Body -- 1 Where "Life Joins Hands with Death": Lawrence, the Sanatorium, and the Bare Life of the Tubercular Body -- 2 Unraveling Lawrence's Vital Web of Dynamic Consciousness: Incorporating the Work of Community or Assembling a Multitude? -- Part 2 Atoms Upon the Mind: Virginia Woolf and the Nervous Body at the Limit of Community -- 3 Organizing the Nervous Body, Regulating the Self: The Psychological Production of National Community in Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves -- 4 Breaking Habits, Affecting the Neuropsychological Body: Toward the "Unsubstantial Territory" of Disorganized Community -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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