Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
Modernism's "BangClash" -- The sacrosanct and the sexual : rethinking philosophy -- Synergistic crises : metaphysics and sexuality in Conrad's Heart of darkness and Victory -- Re-envisioning the platonic ideal : Forster's A passage to India and Maurice -- Metaphysical eroticism and Hegelian spaces : Lawrence's Women in love -- A new "politics of the imaginary" : Woolf's A room of one's own and To the lighthouse