Regenerating the Novel

In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of four British novelists: Virginia Woolf E. M. Forster May Sinclair and D. H. Lawrence. Building on analyses of gender theory and formal innovation in Virginia Woolf's novels this book examines Forster's queered use of fantasy Sinclair's representation of manly genius in both male and female streams of consciousness and Lawrence's quest for the novel of phallic consciousness. Reading each author's fiction alongside his or her theoretical writing Miracky provides four diverse examples of how literary modernism wrestled with the gender crisis of the early twentieth century.