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Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Modernist Writing

This is the first account of the haptic sense within literature of the modernist period, as well as the first monograph to analyse explicitly the representation of touch in literary form. Research began in 2005. The complete published works of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson and D. H. Lawrence were consulted, alongside cross-disciplinary materials concerning the physiognomy and gestures of the hand from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. This broad research scope allows the book to make a substantial contribution to contemporary ‘sensory scholarship’ that debates the body’s role as a subject and audience of literary writing.