Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

A timely and observant piece of research that should be of great interest to scholars of modernism, the medical humanities, and beyond.
*Chloe R. Green, University of Melbourne*

Modernism and Physical Illness presents excellent original research. It also offers a study in how one might think about the relationship between illness and literary criticism more generally, and the necessary limits to how one might form arguments out of illness.
*Kirsty Martin, Modern Language Review*

This is a study that prompts more reflection about modernism and illness and does so in such a way that is useful to our current moment.
*Robert Volpicelli, Journal of Modern Literature*

Overall, Modernism and Physical Illness adds a rigorous close reading of Fifield's selected authors to the ongoing work being done in modernist studies. The intersection of modernist aesthetics and physical illness is rich with possible contributions to our understanding of the modernist movement overall. Fifield's reading is a thoughtful addition that adds dimension to modernist studies while providing groundwork for forging new alliances with new work in disability studies.
*Jennifer Marchisotto, James Joyce Quarterly*

Recommended.
*L. Simon, CHOICE*