Considers to the role of physical illness in modernist writing and explores works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby to show how illness is used as an altered, heightened type of experience and can be a framework for gender, racial, and class-based othering.
Considers to the role of physical illness in modernist writing and explores works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, and Winifred Holtby to show how illness is used as an altered, heightened type of experience and can be a framework for gender, racial, and class-based othering.
Peter Fifield is Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. His interests include modernism, medical humanities, and literary ethics. He has published work on Samuel Beckett, E. M. Forster, Emmanuel Levinas, and others.
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Introduction: Sick Books 1: Sensory intensity and illness in Lawrence 2: Virginia Woolf: Illnesses of the Exotic and the Urban 3: T. S. Eliot and the skin around the skull 4: 'You ought to be supported by the state!' Dorothy Richardson and the Politics of Care 5: Winifred Holtby and the Fevered (Middle)brow Epilogue
Introduction: Sick Books 1: Sensory intensity and illness in Lawrence 2: Virginia Woolf: Illnesses of the Exotic and the Urban 3: T. S. Eliot and the skin around the skull 4: 'You ought to be supported by the state!' Dorothy Richardson and the Politics of Care 5: Winifred Holtby and the Fevered (Middle)brow Epilogue
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