Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain

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.

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CRAIG GORDON is Assistant Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada.

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Where 'Life Joins Hands with Death': Lawrence, the Sanatorium, and the Bare Life of the Tubercular Body Unravelling Lawrence's Vital Web of Dynamic Consciousness Organizing the Nervous Body, Regulating the Self: The Psychological Production of National Community in Mrs Dalloway and The Waves Breaking Habits, Affecting the Neuropsychological Body: Towards the 'Unsubstantial Territory' of Disorganized Community