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I show how – where psychiatry pathologized individuals with these conditions as deficient and disordered, as cognitively impaired, psychotically withdrawn, or psychosocially incompetent – modernist experimentations with embodied forms of human experience in the novel form made it possible to affirm distinctive and vivid modes of processing sensation. I read modernist novels – by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Beckett – as depathologizing sensory disability, as offering new ways of understanding disability as a matter of thinking and relating differently. I argue that these novels were able to imagine sensorially divergent forms of personhood through their formal techniques and innovations – from the impression's mediation of sense and thought to the sensory language of illness, from narrative sequences of sensory association to spherical shapes of sensation. I do not simply draw on insights from the field of disability studies but also show what this field can gain from the recent interest in the politics of form within literary studies: against criticism that reads disability as breaking literary forms apart, I show how sensation is given form in these novels through relationships of care. This interdisciplinary projects seeks to reveal how the forms it describes are aesthetic and social, imagined and material, and thereby situated within broader historical and cultural contexts.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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