Modernism narrative and humanism Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION The anthropometric turn; 1 Narrating the animal amputating the soul; 2 Conrad and technology: homo ex machina; 3 The Lawrentian transcendent: after the fall; 4 Woolfs luminance: time out of mind; 5 Doubting Beckett: voices descant stories still; CONCLUSION Humanness unbound; Notes; Bibliography; Index In Modernism Narrative and Humanism Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine Modernist narrative for the twenty first century. He reveals the crucial link between the Modernist novels narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of interest to scholars of Modernism and literary theory