Haptic Modernism
Subtitle: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780748641741
Subjects: Joyce, james, 1882-1941; Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941; Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930; Richardson, dorothy miller, 1873-1957; English literature, history and criticism, 20th century; Modernism (literature)
Description: This text contends that the haptic sense - combining touch kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical new bodily experiences brought about by scientific, technological and psychological change.