Modernist Physics studies literary texts and scientific ideas in their historical context to provide an original account of the ways in which Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence engaged with the scientific theories, especially those of Albert Einstein.

• Introduction: The Balancing Act of Literature and Science


• Part I. Waves, Particles and Heuristic Points of View


• 1: The Obligation to Choose: Dualistic Woolf


• 2: 'Orlando the man and Orlando the woman': Complementary Woolf


• Part II. Relativities and Relativism


• 3: D. H. Lawrence's 'theory of human relativity'


• 4: D. H. Lawrence and 'living relativity'


• Part III. Crowds of Molecules, Crowds as Molecules


• 5: Brownian Motion and Crowd Psychology: Shared Moment, Shared Discourse


• 6: A Brownian Model for Literary Crowds: Individuals Suspended in a Mass


• Conclusion

Rachel Crossland is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chichester. Following a BA in English and Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool, she completed her Masters and DPhil at St John's College, Oxford. She taught at various colleges at the University of Oxford, before taking up a year's Lectureship at King's College London in 2014. She joined the University of Chichester in January 2015. Dr Crossland is interested in links between literature and science in the early twentieth century, including popular science, and in modernist writing more broadly considered.