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Literary Modernism, Bioscience, and Community in Early 20th Century Britain / by C. Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Craig A. (Craig Allen), 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 Waves4 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611362997
- 9781281362995
- 1281362999
- 9780230604186
- 0230604188
- OCLC:
- 314793971
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