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

1. Introduction
Craig A. Gordon

Part 1. Germ Cultures: D. H. Lawrence and the Vital Question of the Tubercular Body

2. Where “Life Joins Hands with Death”: Lawrence, the Sanatorium, and the Bare Life of the Tubercular Body
Craig A. Gordon

3. Unraveling Lawrence’s Vital Web of Dynamic Consciousness: Incorporating the Work of Community or Assembling a Multitude?
Craig A. Gordon

Part 2. Atoms Upon the Mind: Virginia Woolf and the Nervous Body at the Limit of Community

4. Organizing the Nervous Body, Regulating the Self: The Psychological Production of National Community in Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves

Craig A. Gordon

5. Breaking Habits, Affecting the Neuropsychological Body: Toward the “Unsubstantial Territory” of Disorganized Community
Craig A. Gordon

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature