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

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53759-4
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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