New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed

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Contents
Introduction: Who’s Afraid of the Modernist Community?
1 “Being Out, Out”: Ontological Exposure in Modernist Fiction
2 Unwelcome Visitations: Hospitality, Individual and Community in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes
3 Dwelling in the Body: Neuter Ontology in Gertrude Stein and James Joyce
4 The Search for “The Common Voice”: The Storyteller, Community and (Pre)Medieval Echoes in the Work of Virginia Woolf
5 “You, Too?”: Katherine Mansfield’s Community of Women Artists
6 Elitism, Classism and Cosmopolitanism: The Configuration of Community in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love
7 Inoperative Narratives and Relational Singularities in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Novels
8 Galactic Modernism: Distributed Individuality in Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men and Star Maker
9 “Speaking No Language Which the Other Understood”: The Search for Acknowledgment in Faulkner’s South
10 The Seductions of Capitalism: Singularity versus Community in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
11 “Today I Have Left My Armor at Home”: Revisiting Jean Rhys’s Interwar Novels after the Ethical Turn
12 James Baldwin’s Joy: Finitude, Carnality and Queer Community
13 “To Have That on the Imagination!”: Beckett and the Subjectivities of Literary Fiction
List of Contributors
Index