Title: Haptic Modernism
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.
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), Touch in literature, Human body in literature, English literature, History and criticism