{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"Peter Fifield","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198825425.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825425.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The closing remarks restate the importance of illness to modernism, arguing that it is defamiliarization rather than diagnosis that is central to modernist illness. Literary modernism demonstrates an investment in non-normative bodies and their experience, not as case studies or symbols, but as lived objects that overspill medical classifications. Modernism’s careful attention to such variety and nuance is passed on to the reader, for whom the literary experience of other subjects is thus neither a simple extension of our own embodiment, nor wholly out of our imaginative ambit. Modernism shows the ill subject as other, but also embedded in a social world in which they play a full and lively role.","PeriodicalId":202173,"journal":{"name":"Modernism and Physical Illness","volume":"280 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133070378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virginia Woolf","authors":"P. Fifield","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198825425.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825425.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Woolf’s formation as an experimental writer was founded on early observation of illness, and of bereavement. The Voyage Out uses illness to subvert the marriage plot by colliding it with stories of exploration and adventure, where tropical fever tests the protagonist. Rachel Vinrace’s fever, however, is not a climax of self-realization but a violent interruption that collapses plot and novelistic convention. In Rachel, Woolf uses the fever to create a distorting and disorienting, but also vividly mimetic portrayal of the mind. In Mrs. Dalloway Woolf provides the complementary view to the rich interiority of The Voyage Out, relating the perspective of onlookers who repeatedly see Clarissa as an influenza sufferer; a viewpoint that influences her own experience in turn.","PeriodicalId":202173,"journal":{"name":"Modernism and Physical Illness","volume":"2008 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114204471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}