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Craig A. Gordon LITERARY MODERNISM, BIOSCIENCE, AND COMMUNITY IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITAIN © Craig A. Gordon, 2007. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-1-3049-7754-0 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embod- ied in critical articles or reviews.

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Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1

Part 1 Germ Cultures: D. H. Lawrence and the Vital Question of the Tubercular Body 1 Where “Life Joins Hands with Death”: Lawrence, the Sanatorium, and the Bare Life of the Tubercular Body 23 2 Unraveling Lawrence’s Vital Web of Dynamic Consciousness: Incorporating the Work of Community or Assembling a Multitude? 81

Part 2 Atoms Upon the Mind: and the Nervous Body at the Limit of Community 3 Organizing the Nervous Body, Regulating the Self: The Psychological Production of National Community in Mrs. Dalloway and 129 4 Breaking Habits, Affecting the Neuropsychological Body: Toward the “Unsubstantial Territory” of Disorganized Community 161

Appendix 207 Notes 211 Works Cited 223 Index 231 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments

My most sincere gratitude is due to both Kim Michasiw and Thomas Loebel, whose consistently acute commentary and substantial patience fundamentally shaped this work at an early stage. The project has also benefited enormously from the insights of Lauren Gillingham, Jennifer Henderson, and Julie Murray, who have offered me the benefit of both general dialogue and very specific and detailed readings of my work. It equally has been a privilege, and a source of inspiration, that they have so generously shared their work with me and have provided sustaining friendship when I needed it most. I also want to thank Keith Denny, Chris Douglas, Rob Hemmings, Lori Kiefer, Phil Kiff, Peter Sinnema, Lisa Sloniowski, and Janet Wesselius for their intellectual comradeship and friendship. They each deserve more specific thanks than I am able to render here, and I can only hope that they will allow me to attend to that debt in other ways and at other times. In having shared with me their humor, intelligence, and energy, not to mention countless meals and drinks, they have made life much more than merely livable and have demonstrated to me, in innumerable ways, the value of the communities in which I am fortunate to participate. Most of all, I would like to thank Alison Lee. Thank you for your insight, intelligence, support, and patience. Thank you for talking and listening. And thank you for making life fun. Finally, it would be impossible to adequately acknowledge the debt I owe to my parents, Elaine and Murray. Through their interest, curiosity, encour- agement, sympathy, friendship, confidence, and periodic anxiety, they have allowed me to trust my abilities, affirmed my ambitions, and reminded me of the much broader perspective within which those ambitions are most pro- ductively contemplated. Without their love and unflinching support, this book would have been utterly impossible. My initial preparations and the early writing of this manuscript were sup- ported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the final stages of the work were supported by a grant from the College of Arts at the University of Guelph. My work also viii • Acknowledgments owes a debt to the expertise and assistance of the staff at the British Library, and the Wellcome Library, , England. Parts of Chapters 3 and 4 were previously published in “Breaking Habits, Building Communities: Virginia Woolf and the Neuroscientific Body,” which appeared in issue 7, volume 1, of Modernism/ in 2000. They are reprinted here with the permis- sion of Johns Hopkins University Press. The cover image appears courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. List of Abbreviations

CE Virginia Woolf, Collected Essays, 4 vols., ed. Leonard Woolf (London: Hogarth, 1966–67). F D. H. Lawrence, Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). MD Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). MM , , trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter (New York: The Modern Library, 1955). PS D. H. Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl), ed. L. D. Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). PT [1910] David C. Muthu, Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Sanatorium Treatment: A Record of Ten Years’ Observation and Work in Open-Air Sanatoria (London: Baillière, 1910). PT [1922] David C. Muthu, Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Its Etiology and Treatment: A Record of Twenty-two Years’ Observation and Work in Open-Air Sanatoria (London: Ballière, 1922). RDP D. H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, ed. Michael Herbert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). S Donald O. Stewart, Sanatorium: A Novel (London: Chatto and Windus, 1930). W Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).